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Baltic ferry ran aground off Finland: passengers must spend the night on the ship
The “Viking Grace” stranded. Image: keystone
A ferry with 429 people on board ran aground on Saturday in the Baltic Sea off the Finnish archipelago of Åland. There were no injuries, the situation is stable, the Viking Line shipping company wrote on its website.
The “Viking Grace” will stay there until the wind dies down. The passengers would have to spend the night on board, they would be accommodated in cabins and they would be given meals. The divers examined the bottom of the ship, which contained 331 passengers and 98 crew members.
The “Viking Grace” is stuck, passengers must stay on board overnight. Image: keystone
The coast guard said there were no leaks, the newspaper “Helsingin Sanomat” reported. The spokeswoman for the shipping company, Johanna Boijer-Svahnström, said according to the newspaper that there were strong gusts of wind. Before the investigation, you do not want to speculate on the causes of the accident.
The ferry ran aground on the Åland Islands, near the town of Mariehamn, near the port. He was on his way from the Swedish capital, Stockholm, to Turku, in southern Finland.
A ship of the shipping company ran aground off the archipelago in September. At that time there were around 280 people on board. No one was hurt either. (sda / dpa)
