Spirit of Hamburg - Voyage 15S

We are sorry to inform you that there was an incident aboard the Spirit of Hamburg while in Cartagena. This incident is currently under investigation by local Authorities. The investigation will take longer than initially expected and the vessel operator has made the following contingency plans:

All containers loaded on Spirit of Hamburg 15S destined to Oceania will be discharged at Cartagena. These containers will be transfer to Maersk Inverness 16S arriving at destination one week later.
This includes the following:

• All Southbound containers loaded at Philadelphia and Charleston destined to Australia and New Zealand
• All containers previously loaded at Cartagena on the Spirt of Hamburg destined to Australia and New Zealand will be discharged at Cartagena and transferred to Maersk Inverness 16S
• All containers presently set to load on Spirit of Hamburg at Balboa will be transferred to Maersk Inverness 16 S

All containers currently scheduled to load on Maersk Inverness 16S at Cartagena and Balboa will need to be transferred to Spirit of Shanghai 17S arriving at destination one week later.
All containers ex North America already loaded onboard Maersk Inverness 16 S destined to Oceania will remain onboard (no delay)

As further information comes forward from the vessel operator, we will keep all informed.