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A navigation incident occurred in the Brown Channel, where two vessels sailing upstream towards Campana ended up in a scrape during an overtaking maneuver.
According to ArgenPorts, the incident involved the tanker Ayane and the merchant vessel Pacific Eternity at kilometer 36 of the waterway.
According to preliminary information, the contact occurred when the Ayane was performing a maneuver to overtake the other vessel.
Despite the incident, no crew members were injured, no spills occurred, and no significant damage was reported on the vessels, so both continued sailing normally towards the Port of Campana.
Port records released by ArgenPorts show that the Ayane, flying the flag of Malta and measuring 144 meters in length, had recently been operating with about 15,000 tons of naphtha and diesel in a transshipment mode.
The vessel had been involved in operational movements between Campana and terminals in the southern Buenos Aires port system.
For its part, the Pacific Eternity, 200 meters long, appears in various lineups associated with agricultural cargo operated by Dreyfus within the Argentine agro-export complex.
Recent records show it related to wheat shipments destined for Chile from Bahía Blanca.
Additionally, it had previously participated in loading operations of soybean meal and wheat in General Lagos, within the Up River Paraná.
The Brown Channel is part of the navigation system used by vessels operating between the Río de la Plata, the lower Paraná, and the industrial ports of the Campana-Zárate axis.
Maritime sources indicated that overtaking maneuvers in this type of corridor require precise coordination due to intense commercial traffic and the operational limitations inherent to the waterway.
In this case, despite the contact between both hulls, the situation did not generate relevant operational consequences or affect the continuity of navigation, according to the trans-Andean media outlet.
Source: portalportuario
