A cargo ship that ran aground in Norway, narrowly missing a house, is being towed to a nearby harbor
A tugboat hauled and refloated the NCL Salten off the shore of the Trondheim fjord in the morning hours. The vessel was being taken to the nearby harbor of Orkanger.
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