Cargo ships can lose anywhere from a single container to hundreds at a time in rough seas. Experts disagree on how many are lost each year. The World Shipping Council, an industry group, reports ...

According to WK Webster, up to 750 containers may have been lost at sea and it is also likely that some containers were damaged in the affected piles that remained on board, and they will need to ...

“In the case of these ECG containers, there are three possibilities: they could have been misplaced at a terminal, lost at sea, or auctioned. A thorough investigation will lead us to their whereabouts ...

Similarly, EU rules on containers lost at sea are far from watertight. First, there is no guarantee that all losses are declared; and second, very few containers are recovered. “Pollution at sea ...

The crash ruptured containers on the Solong and thousands of plastic pellets, called nurdles, have been washing up on beaches on the Norfolk coast, where a clean-up operation is ongoing.

Lost container contents don’t have to be toxic ... below the surface to study deep-sea corals in 2004 when they were surprised to encounter a metal box. “It’s just serendipity that we ...