News / Increase in containers overboard sees industry boost research into losses

X-Press Pearl. Photo: Sri Lankan Navy

Shippers have welcomed the World Shipping Council (WSC)’s move to increase its carrier surveys on container losses to annual events rather than tri-annual surveys.

This follows concerns over particularly heavy container losses from around the autumn of 2020 to spring 2021.

According to the WSC’s latest figures, some 3,113 containers were lost in the 2020-2021 period, a 400% increase on the losses during the two previous years, prompting the increase in the reporting period from every three years to annually.

James Hookham, director ...