A Japanese-owned bulk carrier has destroyed a pier after appearing to lose control in the port of Barranquilla, Colombia.
El Universal newspaper reported that Nissen Kaiun’s 60,500-dwt Hakata Queen (built 2016) was intending to leave the terminal with 30,000 tonnes of coal when the accident happened on Friday.
Video footage shot from the dock on a mobile phone begins with the vessel drifting sideways towards the concrete structure as two port workers run for safety
Increasingly anguished shouts are heard from the quayside as the ship ploughs into the pier, where a tug is tied up.
