HAVE you recently had a package not show up at your door? It’s possible it’s at the bottom of the ocean. More containers have fallen off ships in the past four months than are typically lost in a year, according to the World Shipping Council. To blame is heavy traffic...
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HAVE you recently had a package not show up at your door?
It’s possible it’s at the bottom of the ocean.
More containers have fallen off ships in the past four months than are typically lost in a year, according to the World Shipping Council.
To blame is heavy traffic in shipping lanes, the weather, and parametric rolling.
Almost 3,000 containers have fallen off cargo ships in the Pacific since Nov 2020 in at least six separate incidents, which is more than twice the number of containers lost annually between 2008 and 2019.
The clubhouse leader in recent months is ONE Apus, which lost more than 1,800 containers in Nov 2020 during what the shipping company called “gale-force winds and large swells” – one of the costliest losses ever.
Maybe it had your new shoes aboard.
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