A general cargoship has spilled 18 containers from its deck after a partial capsize in Vietnam.
The 2,500-dwt Alica (built 1987) tilted severely to its port side at Hiep Phuoc on 27 April.
Video footage shows most of the boxes on deck crashing into the water before the ship righted itself a little.
The Tin Tuc daily newspaper reported that the Ho Chi Minh City department of transport restricted traffic on the Doi canal and Kinh river in Nha Be district as a result.
Police were instructed to block access to the waterways as some containers floated away.
The 72-metre, Mongolian-flagged vessel was carrying 54 containers in total. Equasis lists the ship as managed by Apollo Agencies of Malaysia.
The Norwegian-built vessel had left the Sarikei anchorage in Malaysia on 19 April.
Bound for Indonesia
The Alica had been expected to depart for Indonesia before the incident occurred.
No injuries or pollution were reported, and no cause of the accident has been given.
The vessel was said to be resting on the bottom, with most of its hull and superstructure above the waterline.
AIS data showed the vessel was still in the port on Friday.
The Alica, which VesselsValue assesses as worth only $700,000 for both further trading and scrap, has a clean port state control record going back to 1999.
Apollo Agencies is listed with two other small cargo vessels built in 1996 and 2009.
