MSC Coruna Comes to Baltimore August 9, 2020

This 270x40m (886×131ft) Liberia flagged container ship was built in 2011 by Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries (according to Balticshipping.com) which is now Damen Shipyards Mangalia after Damen took control of Daewoo’s shareholding in 2017. According to MarineTraffic.com she can carry 5,550 TEUs and has 716 reefer plugs. She is owned by Offen Reederei GmbH and operated by MSC.

I found a couple of videos of her, both fairly recent. One from 2019 at Felixtowe, UK, and another from this year in German.

In my 9 minute video below she can be seen coming inbound from the Chesapeake Bay on a hazy morning. She passes the outbound Sampogracht which was carrying rubber tire gantry cranes to Wilmington, Delaware. She’s carrying a colorful array of containers, about half of which are MSC containers. After passing under the key bridge she picks up a tug, the Gramma Lee T Moran. In a later scene the tug April Moran can be seen hurrying to help assist this ship to dock at Seagirt Marine Terminal.

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