{"id":49792,"date":"2026-03-27T08:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T08:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/49792\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T08:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T08:44:08","slug":"cruise-ship-hits-bridge-while-transiting-rhine-river-near-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/49792\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruise ship hits bridge while transiting Rhine River near Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wheelhouse, which can be hydraulically lifted and lowered, was still in the raised position at the time of the incident and was almost completely demolished.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the significant damage suffered by the wheelhouse, the helmsman suffered only minor injuries. He was subsequently treated by first responders who had arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>No other injuries have been reported among those who were on board.<\/p>\n<p>Local media said the passengers, which numbered over 200, were evacuated after the ship suffered a power failure while still stranded. They were all eventually transported by bus the rest of the way to Cologne.<\/p>\n<p>The canal remains partially closed to vessel traffic while vehicular traffic on the bridge was suspended until 03:00 on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The wheelhouse, which can be hydraulically lifted and lowered, was still in the raised position at the time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[27838,27599,199,71,190,12027,200,27837,4505],"class_list":{"0":"post-49792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-amsterdam","8":"tag-a-rosa-cruises","9":"tag-a-rosa-sena","10":"tag-amsterdam","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-incidents","14":"tag-netherlands","15":"tag-rhine-river","16":"tag-switzerland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116300262011224017","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}