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
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
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
Once again a large container ship has lost a large number of containers in heavy weather. This time it was the Maersk Essen, which lost some 750 containers in the middle of the North Pacific.Read more
The captain of the container ship MSC Zoe will not be prosecuted, the Dutch Public Prosecutor’s Office has announced. The container ship lost a huge load of containers in bad weather in the night of...Read more
ONE has announced that unloading of containers on board the ONE Apus has been proceeding steadily. So far, 126 containers have been removed from the 14,000-TEU ship that lost more than 1800 containers on 30...Read more
Two years after container ship MSC Zoe lost 342 containers, a quarter of this cargo remains in the North Sea. This needs to be cleaned up as quickly as possible, says Ewout van Galen of...Read more
It will take more than a month to remove all remaining containers from the ONE Apus. The container ship of the Japanese shipping company ONE lost 1816 containers a fortnight ago during heavy weather on...Read more
The 200 containers that may have been lost on the North Sea on Wednesday have not yet been found. A German coast guard search vessel has been unable to find anything near the Weiße Bank....Read more
Once again, a ship has lost containers in the North Sea. This has been reported by Rijkswaterstaat and the Netherlands Coast Guard. According to unconfirmed reports, it concerns the Munich Maersk, which sailed in German...Read more
The container ship ONE Apus arrived in the Port of Kobe, Japan, on 8 December. The ship lost 1816 containers during severe weather on Monday 30 November. 64 containers contained dangerous goods. Their contents have...Read more
The Japanese container ship ONE Apus has lost more than 1800 containers on Monday evening, 30 November. This happened when the 14,000-TEU ship ran into a storm on the Pacific Ocean. Forty lost containers were...Read more
New international requirements are needed for large container ships. This should prevent another disaster such as the one with MSC Zoe almost two years ago north of the Wadden Islands.Read more
A shipping disaster such as the one involving the container ship MSC Zoe, which lost 342 containers near the Wadden Islands in January 2019, could happen again at any time. Several experts warned of this...Read more
Despite the container shipping sector being well regulated and highly regarded, containers are still lost overboard. In a new report, The Swedish Club delivers hands-on advice for preventing such losses. One of the catalysts identified...Read more
