The World Shipping Council (WSC) its study on containers lost at sea reveals that far fewer are lost than claimed by many organisations such as the Maritime Research Institute of the Netherlands (MARIN).MARIN has said that "every year tens of thousands of containers, cars and trucks are lost or damaged at sea".
But the WSC said that based on survey results 350 containers are lost at sea each year, not counting catastrophic events, which would lift the annual loss to 650 if such losses were included.
Reacting, MARIN project manager Jos Koning said: "The different number does not mean that fewer containers will be washed on the beach than before. Containers have washed up on Dutch beaches regularly over past years. The smaller number merely means that fewer containers are responsible for the effects that are already being experienced."
Said the WSC: "Total industry losses obviously vary from year to year, but these numbers are well below the 2,000 to 10,000 per year that regularly appear publicly, and represent a very small fraction of container loads shipped each year.
"Containers lost overboard as a result of events related to severe weather are usually outside the control of carriers, stevedores, or shippers, and unfortunately, such events are unlikely to disappear completely. But the industry has been supporting a number of efforts undertaken in recent years to reduce the number of containers lost at sea."
Source : HKSG.
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