Among the missing containers were 64 containing dangerous goods.
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The container ship ONE Apus dropped anchor that Tuesday in the Japanese port of Kobe after 1,816 of its containers will fall by the board due to inclement weather on November 30, when he faced waves up to 16 meters high, according an official statement from the Ocean Network Express company.
The incident, which took place some 1,600 nautical miles northwest of the Hawaiian archipelago, caused the crossing to be suspended and change course from the search to the Japanese pier, where it took 8 days to arrive. Initially, the gigantic sea carrier was heading from Yantian (Chinese province of Canton) to Long Beach (California, USA).
Among the missing containers were 64 with dangerous goods. Specifically, there are 54 containers with fireworks, while another eight had batteries and two, liquid ethanol. To realize the magnitude of the losses, it should be noted that the ONE Apus can transport around 14,000 containers, so the almost 2,000 lost represent 13% of its total capacity.
To make matters worse, numerous containers on board have been overturned, so the real scale of the disaster it is far from being estimated. Despite the fact that the crew and the ship are now out of danger, the most disheartening thing about the episode is that the 1,816 containers washed out to sea mark a new record in the losses of loads of this type.
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