Tag: container loss

The World Shipping Council (WSC) has released its annual Containers Lost at Sea report, showing that 576 containers were lost at sea in 2024.

Authorities in the southern Indian state of Kerala have been urgently working to contain an oil spill in the Arabian Sea after MSC ELSA sank.

MSC begun tracking and recovering containers that washed ashore after its vessel, MSC Elsa 3, sank off the coast of Kochi on 25 May.

The container ship MSC Houston V lost 15 containers in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Portugal on March 20 after encountering severe weather conditions from Storm Martinho.

The containership SM Portland, operated by SM Line, lost 115 containers due to severe weather while sailing through the Bering Sea on March 4.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) published an investigation report into an incident where 23 containers were lost overboard.

A cargo vessel lost its load while transiting through a deepwater route about 82 kilometers off the coast of Texel, Netherlands.

On 23 December, the containership, AMNAH, tilted and then capsized at Ambarli Port, causing several containers to spill into the sea.

On 5 December a containership and an autonomous vessel collided on the river Scheur near Rotterdam, leading to four containers being knocked into the water. 

Many ships are avoiding the Red Sea by sailing around South Africa exposing them to unforgiving seas around the Cape. With several incidents of cargo stowage failure and container losses in the region recently there are fears of more to come, argue Are Solum, Team Leader, Dry Cargo Claims (Lawyer), Gard AS, and Mark Russell, Mark Russell as Managing Director of Gard's Hong Kong office.