Container ship ‘One Apus’ arriving in Japan today after losing over 1800 containers whilst crossing the Pacific bound for California last week.

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image showing Container ship ‘One Apus’ arriving in Japan today after losing over 1800 containers whilst crossing the Pacific bound for California last week.

MV_MerchantMan on December 8th, 2020 at 09:15 UTC »

Bit more info: ‘Ocean Network Express (ONE) estimates that 1,816 boxes fell into the ocean during a storm as the Japanese-flagged ship crossed the Pacific to California last week. Of the 1,816 units lost, 64 contained dangerous goods, including fireworks, batteries and liquid ethanol.

As well as the lost boxes, there are thousands that have fallen on deck as these social media images taken today clearly show. Cargo claims are expected to top $50m from the accident, the worst container loss since 2013’.

anjuna127 on December 8th, 2020 at 09:36 UTC »

54 of the Dangerous Goods containers carried fireworks, eight held batteries and two contained liquid ethanol.

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Tried2flytwice on December 8th, 2020 at 10:30 UTC »

Imagine crossing in your yacht or catamaran and hitting a massive floating metal structure just below the surface in the middle of the pacific. You’d be in some deep shit!