The number of shipping containers lost at sea has risen significantly during the pandemic thanks to an “unusually high” number of incidents particularly in the winter of 2020-21, the World…
https://gcaptain.com/survey-shows-worrying-increase-in-number-of-containers-lost-at-sea/
A ship full of Porsches, Bentleys and Lamborghinis catches fire and sinks in the Atlantic. A container vessel ignites and goes down off Sri Lanka. In a sequel to the Even Given accident in the Suez Canal, another Evergreen ship runs aground, this time in Chesapeake Bay. More containers full of goods topple off ships and vanish into the Pacific. Ships stuck in the queue off Southern California drag anchor in a storm and allegedly damage an oil pipeline.
It’s dangerous out there on the high seas.
U.S. courts were deluged with maritime cases after the financial crisis — there were a lot of debts to collect. A decade later, the docket is far less active, but even so, 2021 had its share of legal confrontations.
Here’s a sample of this year’s court action:
Container line gets phished
Cybercrime is an ongoing threat, as highlighted by a case filed Monday involving an alleged quarter-million-dollar heist.
Admiral Container Lines, which serves the Mediterranean and Black seas, purchased marine...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/container-shipping-heads-to-court-whos-suing-whom
It’s been one year since the ONE Apus lost over 1,800 containers overboard during storm in the Pacific Ocean. In a season highlighted by weather-related cargo loss on the trans-pacific,…
https://gcaptain.com/its-been-one-year-since-one-apus-epic-cargo-loss/
As the pandemic pushes the demand for things, carriers are under pressure to deliver faster and in this rush several containers have been toppling over. Lately, there have been many incidents of container toppling over and getting lost at the sea, in recent times.
The high-speed delivery has sparked risks and errors in container safety. This has been the biggest recorded container loss spike in the last 7 years.
As many as 3000 boxes have been lost in the sea last year and in these first 4 months...
Containers piled high on giant vessels carrying everything from car tires to smartphones are toppling over at an alarming rate, sending millions of dollars of cargo sinking to the bottom of the ocean as pressure to speed deliveries raises the risk of safety errors, reports Bloomberg.
Container accidentsThe shipping industry is seeing the biggest spike in lost containers in seven years. More than 3,000 boxes dropped into the sea last year, and more than 1,000 have fallen overboard so far in 2021....
https://mfame.guru/safety-errors-causes-1000-containers-to-be-lost-at-sea/
Los contenedores amontonados en grandes buques que transportan distintas mercancías, desde neumáticos hasta teléfonos inteligentes están volcando a un ritmo alarmante, enviando millones de dólares de carga al fondo del océano, ya que la presión para acelerar las entregas aumenta el riesgo de...
https://fullavantenews.com/aumento-del-numero-de-contenedores-perdidos-en-el-mar/?lang=es
The MSC Ariane, which diverted to Japan for repairs, is expected to resume sailing for the Port of Los Angeles on Wednesday.
MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co. said the Ariane “had an engine issue due to bad quality of fuel” on April 2 while en route from Xiamen, China, to LA.
MSC did not say what repairs were done in Wakayama, Japan.
The MSC Ariane now is expected to anchor in California’s San Pedro Bay on May 1. “The estimated berthing date will depend upon the congestion in the Los Angeles area,”...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/repaired-msc-ariane-set-to-resume-voyage-to-la
The ONE Apus has discharged cargo at the Port of Long Beach after losing nearly 2,000 containers overboard in the Pacific Ocean last year. An update from Ocean Network Express…
A friend of mine, a pilot in Townsville, invited me to join him during an inbound pilotage of a car carrier back in the 1980s. The bridge is forward on car carriers and ..
https://www.bairdmaritime.com/ship-world/boxship-world/column-dont-look-back-the-boroscope/