Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (Okay Line), the proprietor of the container vessel Madrid Bridge, has supplied a number of additional particulars of a misplaced containers overboard case, which occurred in the course of the North Atlantic 5 days in the past.
The vessel, on constitution to Ocean Community Specific (ONE), is now making its strategy to New York and an investigation into the incident is underway.
Cargo claims specialist WK Webster indicated a minimum of 30 containers have been misplaced overboard on this newest field spill incident.
“Restoration points will come up in respect of any cargo misplaced overboard and harm sustained by cargo stowed to different containers concerned within the collapse of stow however remaining onboard the vessel,” WK Webster said.
On November 30 2020, a stack collapse onboard one other ONE-operated ship, the ONE Apus, resulted in an enormous 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 yr 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.