Every year they are 1,390 the container lost in sea



In last the nine years, between 2008 and 2016, every year from portacontainer of all the world-wide fleets 568 containers have fallen in sea medium, number that 1.582 salt to if it holds account also of the container lost in occasion of marine incidents of important gravity in occasion of which at least 50 have gone lost container in a single incident. It evidences the last update of the relationship of the World Shipping Council (WSC) on the amount of containers lost in sea that is realized through a survey between the navigation companies that they join world-wide the shipowning association.

The last edition of the relationship, that first time in 2011 is published and is updated a first time in a 2014 and second this year, evidences that 64% of the container lost in the course of the period nine-year-old are attributable to disastrous events. In particular, in the last three years the 2014-2016 number of container lost annually in sea, excluding the disastrous incidents, has turned out pairs to 612, with a decrease of the -16% about regarding the medium anniversary of 733 of the three yearses precedence. Including the disastrous events, the number of containers lost annually in the last turned out three years of 1.390, of which 56% he is attributable to the incidents of remarkable gravity, with a reduction of the -48% regarding the medium anniversary of 2.683 container lost in the three years precedence that is returned note with the update of 2014. Elevated number, this last one, to root cause of two serious events: the loss total of portacontainer MOL Confort with all the 4,293 container on board happened in 2013 in the Indian Ocean, that it is the most important left never been necessary to a portacontainer, and grounding and the loss of portacontainer the Rena to the wide one of New Zealand that has determined the fall in sea of about 900 container.

The first relationship of 2011 indicated the loss of about 350 container per year in three years 2008-2010 not taking into consideration the serious incidents, while including them the average it turned out of 675 losses.

"Even if - it has emphasized the president and managing director of the WSC, John Butler - the number of container lost in sea represents a fraction much small regarding the transported number of container every year (in the 2016 - the relationship specifies - industry of the containerized marine transport has transported about altogether 130 million container full of goods for a value estimated of beyond four trillions of dollars, ndr), the continuous field to record a decrease of the losses. The last relationship - it has observed - exhibition that the medium number of containers that esteem have gotten lost every year is inferior to the esteem carried out in 2014. Draft of an encouraging sign. The relationship - Butler has explained - evidences also the initiatives that the field is actively promuovendo in order to increase safety of the container and in order to reduce the losses ulteriorly".

The relationship emphasizes moreover that in the past, for many years, figures on the container lost in sea are circulated absolutely rough and unreliable, as for example affirmations second which such losses could pile very ten thousand container per year.