On February 3, 2016 CSCL Indian Ocean grounded in the River Elbe, while approaching Hamburg, Germany.[5][6][7] Her rudder controls were reported to have malfunctioned. It took almost a week to free her from the sandbank, because she grounded at high-tide. Her fuel was unloaded, and she was finally freed, February 9, six days later, during the next spring tide. Twelve tugboats were required to assist in freeing her.[8] Two dredgers had helped cut away at the sandbank, near the grounding.[9]
CSCL Indian Ocean's grounding triggered commentary over the wisdom of building such large vessels.[5][10][11]
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^ abc"CSCL Globe". ShipSpotting.com. January 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
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Gavin van Marle (2015-01-09). "Asia-Europe rates on the slide again as world's biggest boxship docks in the UK". Loadstar magazine. Retrieved 2017-06-19. Three further 19,100 teu vessels – the CSCL Atlantic Ocean, CSCL Indian Ocean and CSCL Arctic Ocean – are all due to be delivered by March to join the same service, which is eventually expected to deploy 11 vessels between 10,000-19,000 teu on a weekly rotation.
^ ab"Chinese Container Ship Aground near Hamburg". Maritime Executive magazine. 2016-02-04. Retrieved 2017-06-16. The stricken vessel is the 19,000TEU CSCL Indian Ocean owned by Chinese shipping company China Shipping Container Lines. It ran aground after suffering a rudder breakdown while approaching Hamburg on Wednesday night, port pilots said.
^"Container ship stuck in Elbe River successfully rescued". Deutsche Welle. 2016-02-09. Retrieved 2017-06-16. At the time of running aground in the Elbe, the boat was carrying 6,600 containers of cargo. In terms of twenty-foot equivalent unit (teu) measurements, the maximum number of containers a ship could carry is 19,100 teu. Only a handful of cargo vessels in the world exceed 19,000 teu.
^"There are fewer and fewer accidents". Luzerner Zeitung. 2017-06-13. Archived from the original on 2017-06-19. Retrieved 2017-06-16. In February 2016, a particularly spectacular shipwreck also attracted many visitors to the Unterelbe. The container giant "CSCL Indian Ocean" was stuck in the Elbsand and could only be freed again after several days.
