And another, Maersk Eindhoven has confirmed 260 containers were
lost overboard with 65 left damaged onboard on the 17th Feb....
A.P. Møller – Maersk has confirmed 260 containers were lost
overboard and an additional 65 damaged on the
deck of the Eindhoven on Wednesday.
“As previously reported, the Maersk Eindhoven experienced a loss of
engine propulsion for three to four minutes while sailing 45 nautical miles off northern
Japan in heavy seas,” a spokesman said Friday. “The loss of manoeuvrability resulted in severe rolling with 260 containers overboard and 65 containers damaged on
deck.
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/26...-at-sea-mishap
https://gcaptain.com/maersk-eindhove...board-pacific/
The Maersk Eindhoven incident is the latest in a growing container loss incidents to take place in the trans-Pacific
trade since early November ( (One Aquila, One Apus, Ever Liberal*, Maersk Essen, MSC Aries), the most severe being the loss of nearly 2,000 containers from the ONE Apus on November 30. It also comes just a little over a month after the Maersk Essen lost some 750 containers as it was also underway from Xiamen to Los Angeles.
Similar to the Maersk Essen, Maersk Eindhoven is also deployed on Maersk’s TP6 loop and MSC’s Pearl
service.
By our count, the string of incidents this season has resulted in nearly 3,000 containers lost overboard, more than double the yearly average number of containers lost.
According to the World
Shipping Council, an average of 1,382 containers have been lost at sea each year since 2008, however the actual number each year can be vary greatly because of major incidents where a large number of containers are lost in a
single event – like the One Apus, El Faro (2015), MOL Comfort (2013), Rena (2011), etc.
The Danish-flagged MV Maersk Eindhoven was built in 2010 and has a carrying capacity of 13,100 TEUs, which is similar in size to the other ships that have suffered container loss incidents in recent months.