Only 661 out of a total of 250 million containers shipped last year were lost at sea, according to the World Shipping Council’s (WSC) latest report.
The shipping companies’ association specialized in containerized traffic pointed out that an average of 1,566 boxes had been lost over the past 15 years, while 2,301 had gone missing over the three-year 2020-2022 period
WSC CEO John Butler said that the reduction in the number of containers lost at sea in 2022 was good news but there is no time for complacency. He stressed that every container lost at sea would always be one too many and the importance of continuing to try to make the sea a safer workplace and protect the environment and cargo by reducing the number of containers lost at sea.
Translation by Giles Foster
