Wednesday, April 06, 2011

10,000 Shipping Containers Lost At Sea Each Year

Right now, as you read this, there are five or six million shipping containers on enormous cargo ships sailing across the world’s oceans. And about every hour, on average, one is falling overboard never to be seen again. It’s estimated that 10,000 of these large containers are lost at sea each year, and our understanding of what happens to them afterwards is scant at best.

Read the full article here.

1 comment:

fox said...

I wonder that how it can happen and what the salvage rights around these things are.


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