Ocean Community Specific (ONE) has supplied an replace on the field loss accident onboard chartered vessel Madrid Bridge per week in the past within the Atlantic.
The ship is now diverting to Charleston as an alternative of New York with ONE suggesting roughly 60 containers had been misplaced overboard, and an additional 80 models had been broken.
At Charleston, ONE will perform an in depth evaluation of the vessel situation and discharge the affected containers.
On November 30 2020, a stack collapse onboard one other ONE-operated ship, the ONE Apus, resulted in a large collection of insurance coverage claims.
Container transport has been battling a collection of container stack collapses over the previous couple of winters.
Insurer Allianz said in a report final 12 months that the spike in misplaced containers at sea skilled in 2020 and 2021 was all the way down to the prevalence of ever bigger vessels, extra excessive climate, a surge in freight charges and misdeclared cargo weights.
“There are rising questions on how containers are secured on board ships,” Allianz warned.