A massive container ship suffered a power failure in the waters around New York City Friday on Friday night. The ship ultimately came to a stop just near the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge just two weeks after a power failure caused a ship to crash into the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore, causing it to collapse completely.
The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed that it received word that the 89,000-ton M/V Qingdao had lost propulsion around 8:30 p.m. as it traveled through the Kill Van Kull waterway, the main shipping lane between Staten Island and Bayonne, New Jersey. Images uploaded to X by John Konrad, CEO of maritime-focused news outlet gCaptain, shows the massive ship idling dangerously close to the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, which connects Brooklyn and Staten Island.
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