The number of containers shipped at sea has grown roughly tenfold over the past decades, and today’s container carrying capacity for the global container vessel fleet has surpassed 20 million TEU.
The number of containers being transported by water is estimated to be 6 to 7 million at any given time. A marginal number of these containers never reach the destination port.
Exact figures are difficult to assess, but the total number of containers lost at sea is estimated to be roughly 1,500 per...