Yesterday
ONE released a situation report saying 1,900 boxes or more could have
been lost on Monday night when the vessel hit heavy weather in the Pacific.
“The
vessel was on passage from Yantian to Long Beach, approximately 1,600NM
north-west of Hawaii, when it encountered a violent storm cell, producing
gale-force winds and large swells which caused the ONE Apus to roll heavily,
resulting in the dislodging of the lost containers.
“Early
investigations onboard the ONE Apus have determined that the impacted container
bays remain unsafe for close-quarter inspections; however, it is estimated that
the number of lost or damaged units could exceed 1,900, of which some 40 are
believed to be DG [dangerous goods] containers,” the statement said.
It
added that the 14,000 teu vessel had abandoned its original destination and was
now “proceeding in a westerly direction towards Japan with plans to seek a
suitable port to right unstable containers, assess any damages and determine
the exact numbers of containers lost”.
The
ONE Apus is deployed on THE Alliance’s FP2 North Europe-Asia-North
America service, according to the eeSea liner database, along with 17 other
14,000 teu vessels from the ONE and Yang Ming fleets.
According
to the World Shipping Council’s (WSC) Containers Lost at Sea 2020 update, an annual
average of 1,382 containers were lost at
sea between 2008 and 2019.
The
statistics are of course skewed by catastrophic casualties, such as the 2013
sinking of the MOL Comfort that resulted in a loss of 4,293 containers; the
grounding and loss of M/V Rena in 2011 that saw around 900 containers lost; and
the tragic total loss of the SS El Faro in 2015 with the loss of 33 crew
members and 517 containers.
However,
between 2017 and 2019, the industry managed to reduce the average annual loss
to 779.
Source : The Loadstar, 02.12.2020.
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