Maersk Hanoi on her maiden voyage eases from Trinity 7 with the assistance of Svitzer Deben 160418

Maersk Hanoi was gently eases away from Felixstowe's Trinity 7 berth. With all new technology onboard these new builds, just one Svitzer tug was ordered for departure. As the last crane boomed up, a Harwich Haven pilot goes across to the tug pontoon on a pilot launch from Harwich.

Pilot heading up to the Hanoi as the Svitzer Deben breaks away from the tug pontoon.  Pilot radios VTS to confirm draught which was 13.1 metres for her next port of Le Havre and once the tug was fast they were ready to depart. Given clearance to depart,  the Svitzer Deben is made fast centre lead aft.  The crew begin to single up fore and aft but up the stern of the ship an problem with one of the offshore lines was causing an issue.  The problem soon sorted the rest of the lines were dropped and just down to the spring lines, Deben gets ready to pull the ship off the berth.

The pilot planned to use the bow and stern thrust to edge into the channel and then release the Deben when they got some headway.

As the Maersk Hanoi breaks away from the berth she begins to move closer to the boomed down crane astern of the ship so the pilot kicks ahead a couple of times on the main engine before getting the Deben to move right astern as the ship goes ahead towards the Guard Buoy. Steering nicely the pilot hits Deben to close up to let go.