WASHINGTON: Authorities investigated a “potential threat” in a container on a ship at the Port of Charleston in South Carolina early Thursday, the Coast Guard said.
The ship, Maersk Memphis, is at the Wando terminal, the Coast Guard said in a statement. The terminal is used for container cargo, and has been evacuated to allow federal, state and local bomb detection units to investigate. The threat came in about 8 p.m. ET, according to the Coast Guard. It later tweeted that a “safety zone has been established around the vessel while law enforcement authorities investigate the threat.”
