container losses

More than 2,900 containers have gone overboard just since the end of November.

The discharging of damaged containers continues nearly two months after the storm-battered ONE Apus arrived in Japan.

The state of customers’ freight remains unknown as inspection of the 14,052-TEU vessel begins.

MSC has started the process of informing cargo owners that their containers were lost in last week’s storm that saw more than 250 containers lost from the mega-container ship MSC Zoe. However, the company is still analysing what caused the stacks to collapse

A look at just how many shipping containers are lost at sea each year.

Gale force winds and the subsequent rolling movement of the ship are the most likely causes for the loss of around 300 containers from the mega-container vessel the MSC Zoe on 2 January. But MSC has not yet confirmed the causes of the accident, or how much cargo was lost.