Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management Cora van Nieuwenhuizen has said that agreements have been made with Germany about warnings to container ships sailing north of the Wadden Islands in bad weather. In addition,...Read more
Dutch Parliament has once again urged Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management Cora van Nieuwenhuizen to grant the Coast Guard the authority to issue mandatory traffic guidance north of the Wadden Sea. In stormy conditions,...Read more
Rolling in waves seems to underlie many of the incidents that involve a loss of containers at sea. This raises the question if container ships are particularly vulnerable in this respect and if there are...Read more
Did the Baltic Tern ignore the urgent advice of the Netherlands Coast Guard to sail a different course? Members of Dutch Parliament want an answer to this question. They have asked Parliamentary questions about the...Read more
The last two containers lost by the ship Baltic Tern last week north of the Dutch Wadden Island Ameland in the North Sea have also been found. This was stated by Dutch Minister Cora van...Read more
The Dutch Maritime Police in cooperation with the Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate (ILT) is conducting an investigation into the incident involving the container ship Baltic Tern. The ship lost five containers in the North...Read more
Two of the five containers that fell off the container ship Baltic Tern near the Dutch Wadden Island Ameland on Wednesday 7 April have been recovered. The Coast Guard reports that the tank tainer with...Read more
One of the five containers that fell off the container ship Baltic Tern near Ameland on Wednesday has been located. It concerns the container with acetone, reports the Netherlands Coast Guard.Read more
A ship lost five containers on Wednesday 7 April, approximately 27.5 kilometres north of Dutch Wadden Island Ameland in the North Sea. Another two containers are at risk of falling overboard as well, reports the...Read more
The Dutch Safety Board has recommended the Panamanian, German and Dutch Government to submit a proposal to the International Maritime Organization to review the technical requirements imposed on container ships. Such a review could help...Read more
The Maersk Eindhoven experienced a loss of engine propulsion for three to four minutes while sailing 45 nautical miles off Northern Japan in heavy seas on February 17, 2021. The company has now revealed that...Read more
Maersk has announced that the Maersk Eindhoven experienced an engine stop in harsh weather near Japan on the 17th February 2021, while en route from Xiamen, China, to Los Angeles, California. As a result, several...Read more
2020 looks to have been an exceptional year in terms of container losses. But why do stows collapse and how do you prevent this from happening? Simon Burthem, Chief Operating Officer at TMC Marine, explains...Read more
The shipping company of the container ship MSC Zoe will pay over 3.4 million euros for the container disaster that took place over the Wadden Islands on 2 January 2019. Minister Cora van Nieuwenhuizen (Infrastructure)...Read more
Over the past three months, it is estimated that container ships on the high seas lost over 2500 containers. That is almost twice as many as the average over the past twelve years. Is this...Read more
