US EditionCargo Ship Runs Aground in Norwegian Garden, Narrowly Avoids Home
- A 135-meter container ship named NCL Salten ran aground near a house in Byneset on the Trondheim Fjord around dawn on Thursday, 2025-05-22.
- The ship approached the shore with 16 people aboard, and witnesses said it got closer and closer before grounding about eight meters from a neighbor's house.
- Rescue efforts included an unsuccessful tugboat attempt and a salvage operation timed at high tide, but authorities stated refloating the vessel was impossible.
- No oil leaks occurred, and the Norwegian Coastal Administration kept an oil response vessel on standby, while the shipping company's managing director called it a serious incident.
- Authorities launched an ongoing investigation to determine the cause, which remains unknown, and the company expressed relief that no one was injured in the incident.
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The 135-metre-long container carrier that failed a few steps from the house of a Norwegian in a fjord should be cleared on Wednesday after the removal of the containers, said to the AFP the boss of the company in charge of the operation.
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Ship run aground in Norway should be removed within days: company
A ship that made world headlines for running aground in Norway a stone's throw from a house should be dragged loose within days, the head of the company managing the salvage operation said Monday.
There were reportedly no alarms before a 135-meter container ship ran aground in Norway on Thursday. This is the explanation from a 30-year-old Ukrainian who is charged in the case. They write...
A resident of the Norwegian coastal village, Johan Helberg, woke up at 5 a.m. because a concerned neighbor called his door, and there was a giant dry cargo in front of his house, but the Norwegian didn't even notice the time when the ship hit the shore.
The Norwegian discovered the strange intruder early in the morning. If it had crashed further south, the collision could have been fatal for him.
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