Ultra large box ships and the distorted shipping cycle
Received wisdom – are the wheels coming off?
At the beginning of this year, some 281 containers were lost overboard off the Dutch coast from the ultra large container ship MSC Zoe, while it was en route from Sines to Bremerhaven. A criminal investigation in the district court of Amsterdam is currently underway, according to World Cargo News, but it also suggested that problems with the vessel’s “black box” are making the investigation difficult: “it has not been possible to make a correct reading of the ship’s Voyage ...
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