ONE informs that MV ONE Aquila suffered collapsed containers due to severe weather conditions while the vessel was enroute to her next port of call, Long Beach.
Considering the vessel situation and various factors, the vessel diverted to the port of Tacoma to do her survey and re-work of the collapsed containers, subject to authorities’ approval.
After completion of the discharge operations and repair works, the vessel is to continue her voyage as per her original service rotation.
ONE has not reported any details on the extent of the incident and if containers were also lost overboard or it is just a collapse leaving the containers unstable onboard the vessel.
The latest update estimates that the One Aquila will arrive in Long Beach on November 26 and Oakland on December 4.
Recently, World Shipping Council published its 2020 survey concerning containers lost at sea issue, revealing that on average a total of 1.382 containers lost at sea every year.
In light of this challenge, the container industry addresses this problem by:
- Several initiatives at an international level aim at improving the international standards under SOLAS, ISO and the CTU Code and have already reshaped the risks and contributed to lowering the risk.
- In order to fight misdeclaration of cargo, changes to SOLAS came into effect on 1 July 2016 requiring verification of container weights (VGM) before containers can be loaded onboard.
- As per an IMO proposal more loss prevention work is to be done also on the shipowner’s side as an alignment of the Safe Container Convention (CSC) and ISO 1496-1 container stacking strength requirements is needed.
