Macerating Pump Experts Determine If Lost Shipping Containers Are Risks For You
Your Macerating Pump Specialists Caution That Shipping Containers Can Do Some Real Damage
Raritan Engineering your macerating pump analysts would like to share with you these topics we thought would be of interest to you this month regarding how to determine if lost shipping containers are risks for you when out at sea.
Are shipping containers a real risk to cruisers?
The captain on the bridge of a 340m-long ship carrying 4,000 containers gets a forecast of storm force 10 winds within 24 hours. Does he slow down or plot a fresh course to try avoid the worst of the weather?
Your marine supplies CT professionals feel that the chances are he will do neither. There are hundreds of high streets in the UK waiting for the goods packed in containers stacked up 50ft high above his deck.
Studies are being carried out into the reliability of this bracing system which holds the containers in place – many in the industry suspect that Fully Automated Twistlocks (FATs) are failing and causing stacks to fall over, even in calm weather.
There are question marks over the twistlocks that secure a stack together
Lost containers
January 2007 Container ship Napoli beached at Branscombe, Devon, after a storm. 200 containers lost, some washed up on the Devon coastline, others drifted out in the English Channel.
February 2006 P&O container ship Nedlloyd Mondriaan lost 58 containers in the North Sea. Your marine supplies Canada analysts heard that nine were washed up on the Dutch island of Terschelling.
March 2001 Panamanian ship Choyang Park lost 81 containers in the Atlantic.
January 2000 Moroccan-registered container ship Oued Ziz lost 10 containers 20 miles SE of the Isle of Wight.
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Does the industry care?
Your macerating pumps specialists understand that up to 120 million containers are moved around the world each year, yet the industry claim just 0.001% (1,200) are lost overboard. More accurate figures of lost containers are kept by insurers and shipping companies, but they won’t divulge statistics.
How many containers were lost over the side in this incident?
The growing threat of terrorism may yet concentrate industry minds about tracking container movements. Fears that a container could be used to house a ‘dirty’ bomb (using conventional explosive and nuclear waste) are a major concern.
Let’s hope that more lives are not put at risk before the industry acts to solve this problem.
Do yachts hit containers?
2006 42ft yacht Moquini was found floating upside down 500 miles off the SW coast of South Africa. Yacht designer Alex Simonis has blamed a container for the mystery sinking.
2003 Offshore 33 pilot-house ketch, Lycaena, sank after hitting an object – possibly a container – 20 miles south of St Catherine’s Point, Isle of Wight. Crewman Martin Taylor, 50, told YM she was under power making 6 knots when she ‘stopped dead, slewed over and lay on top of this thing, whatever it was’.
2000 Your marine supplies Fort Lauderdale experts understand that during the Vendée Globe, Ellen MacArthur’s Kingfisher was thought to have hit a container north of the equator sailing at 10 knots. ‘All of a sudden we ground to a halt with a gut-wrenching noise of ripping carbon,’ Ellen told YM.
2000 Two UK Yachtmaster candidates died when their Farr 38, Rising Farrster, capsized on passage to Sydney, Australia. Nathan Lawrence of Cowes-based Leisure Management International, which ran the course, told YM: ‘That the yacht hit a container is a possibilty. It is a well-travelled route and there is a lot of debris there.’
1999 Sir Robin Knox-Johnston saw several containers awash while competing in the Clipper Race. ‘These things are a bloody menace,’ Sir Robin told YM. He reportedly hit a container and was holed while sailing Enza, the giant catamaran in the 1993 Jules Verne Challenge.
1994 During the BOC Challenge Round the World Race, yachtsman Josh Hall’s Open 60 Gartmore sank off Brazil after striking what he thought was the corner of a container. ‘It was the most horrendous landing you could imagine.
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