{"id":412,"date":"2018-11-01T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2018\/11\/01\/barcelona-ferry-crash-halts-apm-operations\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:44:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:44:30","slug":"barcelona-ferry-crash-halts-apm-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe\/barcelona-ferry-crash-halts-apm-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona ferry crash halts APM operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>GNV Excellent<\/em> ferry struck a crane on the South wharf, where the Muelle Sur Container Terminal operated by APM is located, which caused the crane to collapse onto several containers of the terminal, 7 of which are classified because they contained dangerous goods, said a port spokesperson, who confirmed that \u201cnobody was injured on board or at the container terminal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although the containers set alight by the crane impact were classed as dangerous goods \u201cnone of the products that transported containers represent a high risk at the level of industrial safety,\u201d said the port spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Several emergency organisations and four tugboats were called to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The port confirmed there were strong winds at the port at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Muelle Sur Container Terminal, operated by APM Terminals since January 2016, has an annual throughput capacity of 2.3m teus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operations in the Port of Barcelona\u2019s APM Terminals were cancelled and workers evacuated on Wednesday morning after a fire broke out when a crane collapsed due to a vessel strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}