Tag: container loss

On January 7, a containership listed hard over at a pier at Mundra International Container Terminal, dropping a large quantity of cargo over the side.

ATSB published its final report into the loss of containers from "APL England" off Sydney in 2020, noting the importance of vessel fixtures being regularly maintained to ensure they are secure and stable.

The IMO Sub-Committee on Carriage of Cargoes and Containers held its 8th session, a hybrid one (CCC 8) agreed draft new requirements for mandatory reporting of lost freight containers at sea.

During SMM trade fair in Hamburg, DNV and  MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) signed a contract to implement the new DNV Anti-Roll Assist system and ARCS (Anti-Roll for Containerships) class notation in some 100 vessels, which is a ship-specific tool to avoid container losses due to parametric or synchronous rolling.

The International Group is a member of the Maritime Research Institute of the Netherlands (MARIN) Top Tier Project, and has received an annexed roll risk estimator.

The World Shipping Council (WSC) Containers Lost at Sea Report covering 2020-2021 shows that containers lost overboard represent less than one thousandth of 1% (0.001%). However, the past two years have seen a worrying break in the downward trend for losses, with the average number of containers lost at sea per year since the start of the survey increasing by 18% to 1,629.

Eighteen containers were swept overboard from a barge en route from Trang province to Penang island in Malaysia on May 29, with some washing up on a beach in Satun.

Marine insurer Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE (AGCS) issued the Safety & Shipping Review 2022, explaining that large vessels continue to drive ever-higher exposures, with fires, container and carrier losses, hazardous cargo, costlier salvage operations and issues with port of refuge leading to oversized losses and general average becoming more frequent.

DMAIB published its report on Maersk Essen, which on 16 January 2021 lost approximately 250 containers while the ship was en route from Xiamen, China to Los Angeles, USA. The number of lost containers were later adjusted to 750.

A Maersk-chartered ship has lost a number of containers after it encountered poor weather conditions on 21 March while en route to Seattle from Yantian.