So one event was more than half the containers lost? And 3000 containers is a pittance compared to worldwide container traffic.
Doesn’t seem like a huge problem. Breathless sensationalism for clicks.
And not all of them sink.
Sharp, hard hazards. And/or they break open and tons of cheap Chinese crap and toxins pollute the oceans. SE Asia and the Indian Ocean have an awful problem with flotsam.
Easy answer, build it here.
But biden will never get that idea...Trump had us headed there...
Where’s that miss me yet meme?
In five years (1941-1945) 1,554 (cargo/tanker) ships were sunk due to war conditions (mines, torpedoes), including 733 ships of over 1,000 gross tons.
We never had weather and wind in the past. That must be it
For a bit of perspective on the numbers...
“The World Shipping Council issued an eye-opening report last July. What seemed like a steady stream of vessel fires, capesizes and container losses was in fact a small drop in the global ocean shipping bucket. A WSC study found a tiny fraction, about .0006%, of the roughly 226 million containers shipped on the world’s oceans each year were lost.”
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ocean-container-losses-topple-annual-average-in-2-months
the ones that float are a real problem.
Maybe this is the real reason for the “rising sea levels”?
I will only get super upset if guns and ammo for us are washed overboard.
Containers in the sea must be hazards for ships at sea!!
“Fell off the ship” is the new “fell off the truck”
The photo above is called a “oopsie” in nautical terms.