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River cruise ship allided with bridge
The 'Ariana', enroute from Kelheim to Würzburg with 137 passengers on board, allided with a bridge on the Main-Danube Canal in Bavaria on Dec 5, 2025, at around 11 p.m., as the ship was attempting to enter a lock near Dietfurt in the Neumarkt district of the Upper Palatinate. The captain had not retracted the wheelhouse of the passenger cabin ship sufficiently, and it struck the bridge, sustaining significant damage. The captain himself was in the outside wheelhouse at the time of the accident. The crew and the 137 passengers were unharmed. The damage was estimated to be in the upper five-digit range. The ship was prohibited from continuing its journey. The Beilngries Water Police was conducting the investigation. The 'Ariana' left Kelheim ther same day, en route to Linz, with an ETA as of Dec 12. Report with photo: https://www.mittelbayerische.de/lokales/landkreis-neumarkt/passagierschiff-mit-137-gaesten-kracht-gegen-bruecke-in-main-donau-kanal-20090059
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