Collapsed containers on the deck of the CMA CGM G.Washington Photo politeness MAIB

The worldwide container delivery sector remains to see a decreasing fad in the variety of containers shed mixed-up annually.

The World Shipping Council (WSC) on Wednesday launched an upgrade to its study that supplies the sector with its ideal price quote on the variety of real containers shed mixed-up.

WSC carried out the very first study of its participant firms in 2011, with updates released in 2014, 2017 as well as 2020. Upon evaluation of the outcomes of the twelve-year duration (2008-2019) evaluated, the WSC approximates that there got on standard an overall of 1,382 containers shed mixed-up annually.

The final thought after twelve years is that majority of all containers shed mixed-up can be credited to to the minimal variety of significant occasions, such as the losses of the MOL Comfort (4,293 containers shed), MV Rena (~ 900 containers shed) as well as SS El Faro (517 containers shed).

For the 3-year duration finishing in 2019, the typical variety of containers shed yearly was up to 779, mostly as a result of less significant events.

According to the WSC, the variety of containers shed crazy stand for much less than one-thousandth of 1 percent of the about 226 million containers lugging $4 trillion well worth of freight transferred by ships in 2019,

However, the sector still acknowledges that all containers shed mixed-up stand for security as well as ecological dangers no matter just how as well as when those containers were shed.

“The industry is encouraged by the declining trend line indicated in the latest report and continues to work on solutions that will bring the number of containers lost at sea each year to as close to zero as possible,” stated John Butler, WSC President as well as Chief Executive Officer. “The report also outlines a number of initiatives the industry is pursuing to improve container safety and further reduce the number of containers lost.”

In each of the studies carried out in 2011, 2014, 2017, as well as 2020 the WSC participant firms were asked to report the variety of containers shed crazy for the coming before 3 years. For the 2020 record, all WSC participant firms reacted as well as with each other, they stand for 80% of the complete worldwide vessel container capability released at the time of the study.

The WSC’s upgraded Containers Lost at Sea Report – 2020 can be found here.