Steering gear failure is likely to have been the initial cause of a collision between three ships at the port of Bremerhaven on 20 November 2016.
According to a German accident report, at 1.53am the 1,404-dwt, multipurpose ship Meridian (built 1969) — “with no discernable alternation in course or speed” — sailed into the moored 2,500-teu containership NewYorker (built 2001).
