Marshall Islands-flagged ore carrier carrying over 170,000 tonnes hits Vietnamese port wharf

The Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier Aquacharm, carrying 170,856 metric tons of iron ore from Australia, struck an under-construction section of a wharf at the dedicated port of the Hoa Phat Dung Quat iron and steel complex in Quang Ngai Province, central Vietnam, on Sunday, tearing a roughly five-meter gash in its bow and damaging the wharf.