Maersk Ship Loses 750 Containers Overboard in Pacific Ocean
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#2On the one hand, 750 feels like a lot of cargo, but the on the other hand, when I look at those pictures of how they load up the ships, it feels like an engineering miracle they don't lose more.
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#3Probably they lost empty containers.
Re: Maersk Ship Loses 750 Containers Overboard in Pacific Ocean
#4On the one hand, 750 feels like a lot of cargo, but the on the other hand, when I look at those pictures of how they load up the ships, it feels like an engineering miracle they don't lose more.
How does 13000 sound? That's the capacity.
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#6My father knew a guy who was moving back to the states with his family and they apparently lost everything when their container went overboard.
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#7On the one hand, 750 feels like a lot of cargo, but the on the other hand, when I look at those pictures of how they load up the ships, it feels like an engineering miracle they don't lose more.
How does 13000 sound? That's the capacity.
So thats about 5% of the total. Largest ones reach nearly 24k. Loosing a few is negligible.
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#8On the one hand, 750 feels like a lot of cargo, but the on the other hand, when I look at those pictures of how they load up the ships, it feels like an engineering miracle they don't lose more.
According to the World Shipping Council, “Upon review of the results of the twelve-year period (2008-2019) surveyed, the WSC estimates that there were on average a total of 1,382 containers lost at sea each year.”[0]
So this was actually quite a few to lose from one ship!
[0] https://www.bifa.org/news/articles/2020/jul/containers-lost-...
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does 13000 sound? That's the capacity.
So thats about 5% of the total. Largest ones reach nearly 24k. Loosing a few is negligible.
Hitting a container is not that negligible. Vendee Globe had a number of UFO causalities, with a number of boats having to retire, one even breaking in half and sinking (the skipper was saved by one of the other competitors). There is the Jules Verne Trophy going on right now, hitting a container at 40 knots is not going to be pretty and these guys have no support boats around to help (the JVT is a single boat trying to go around the world as fast as possible). Even commercial powered boats are not going to be really happy about hitting a container.
Remember all the talk about how disused satellites might cause problems due to debris? That already happens on the sea.
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#10A local between-islands container ship operated by Young Brothers lost a bunch of containers recently off Hawaii Island. It happened just as they were negotiating a substantial rate increase with state regulators, saying without a 40% price hike they wouldn't be able to stay in business. The rate increase passed shortly after the accident, and our local Facebook groups exploded with accusations that the shipping company (or some of its deckhands) had essentially extorted the state. The conspiracy theory was that someone must have had a bunch of insurance on those containers. (I must note again that these were unfounded conspiracy theories with no supporting evidence other than 'convenient timing'). I'm highly skeptical of those claims, but it would be interesting to know if insurance fraud could be contributing to the increase in container losses.