I thought that they had a pilot board and navigate into port, but I only know of anecdotes.

We'll be hearing a lot more about this. It's a really major accident.

I used to live in Bawldamer, in the early 1980s. Back then, it was a tough, blue-collar city, but not yet The Wire.

Tugs to navigate would have prevented this incident.

This container ship ran out of power twice and lost navigational control, which resulted in loss of life and billions in civilian infrastructure.

Seems one cannot rely on container ships alone to navigate narrow passages safely.

No, tugs stop escorting the ship when it enters a main navigation lane. It is very dangerous to move at those higher speeds while attached to tugs. Look up 'tugboat girding' if you want to learn about it.

Especially if this ship had power issues, as seems to be the case.