Container Ship Routes in Europe Need Risk Management Plans To Avert Accidents

According to a Dutch safety watchdog it is “undesirable” for large container ships to use a shipping route through an environmentally sensitive and shallow sea.
These shallow sea routes are off the coast of the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark in heavy northwesterly storms because of the heightened risk of them losing their cargo.
The conclusion came in a report by the Dutch Safety Board into the loss of hundreds of containers from a ship, the MSC Zoe, on New Year’s Day 2019, that led to tons...