Posted on 09/09/2025 7:53:38 PM PDT by nagant
https://youtu.be/bSlGIf8UZRI?t=34
.....When viewed in the light of China's attempt to highjack the world shipping market?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg-nyp-R9Zs
Shipping containers fall off of ships a lot of times.
I just commented on another thread that the containers were probably full of fentanyl or some other drug.
I have no evidence one way or another, but I tend to think this was not at all an accident. Why? No casualties or injured parties so far.
If this was a fully random event, I would have expected several people to have been caught up in the calamity. Thank God no one was. It seems as though whoever may have orchestrated this only wanted a loss of merchandise, not (necessarily) a loss of lives. The expense will be immense.
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(I just commented on another thread that the containers were probably full of fentanyl or some other drug.)
Well if all the aquatic life starts bellying up and floating ashore then you’ll have your answer.
Suppose it’s possible, but from what I’ve read about container ships in general, seems like containers fall of ships fairly regularly. Does seem a bit odd to fall off the ship tied to the pier though.
Cargo containers filled with Halloween trinkets like plastic pumpkins and witches masks?
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Nah - Christmas stuff coming in now. Wife used to work retail, she knows.
After Christmas I used to take her out of town for a day or three to decompress....
Climate change....
They are the result of people not doing their jobs. Usually because they are lazy or careless.
The question you are asking is was this not because someone did not do their job but because they did and this was the planed result.
Could be.
But then.... China.
When ships are at sea, the containers are secured with IBC’s (Inter Box Connectors). Those holes you see in the corners of a sea container are where the put the IBC’s. Four IBC’s on the corners of the bottom secure to the deck. Four IBC’s on the top corners connect to the bottom of the next above and so on upwards.
Next there are heavy cross wire lashings with turn buckles to prevent sway.
When the ship comes into port, the lonshoreman come aboard and remove the lashings and release the IBC’s.
Guess what, there is an order to doing it so the containers don’t fall of when the ship lists during discharge.
Whether complete negligence or sabotage is at this moment unknown.
Insurance fraud? Fill the containers with bricks and say it was NVDIA cards or designer clothes. Who will go to the bottom to find out?
Newer ship (only a year old)...still working out the kinks? Cargo container locks & tie downs removed then it listed dumping some overboard?? Who knows...will wait for the NTSB report I guess.
German owner/management:
https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9954187
https://www.wilhelmsen-ahrenkiel.com
Hope none of my deliveries are in there...
this occured in a harbor that is dredged often. They will recover every container, count on that.
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