cleaning up debris and collecting shipping containers that fell off one of its vessels in the north sea the ship lost more than two hundred seventy containers during a storm earlier this week now damaged containers and their contents are washing up on dutch and german beaches. the t.v. s are easy it s the styrofoam packaging that s harder to clean up just some of the washed up cargo that tumbled off the container ship not all containers sink some bob just beneath the surface creating a nasty hazard for unsuspecting trollers. then all the reading on deck gets broken in the worst case it can happen at the boat capsizes we ve all had. the largest ships can carry almost twenty thousand containers a lot of work for the dockers whose job it is to fasten the cargo as well as the twist locks on each box the containers are doubly secured. you can see in the
a lot of work for the dockers whose job it is to fasten the cargo as well as the twist locks on each box the containers are doubly secured so. you can see in the operator here that the containers are fixed with rods to the so-called gallery this is pure manual work and depending on how large the ships are it spites across several day. but that s not always enough huge vessels can roll dramatically in rough seas exacting tremendous centrifugal forces on stacked containers it s what may have cost the m.s.c. almost two hundred eighty that s a little fact that some containers go overboard cannot be prevented it happens again and again but the magnitude of the time was such a new ship is unusual with me. and twenty eleven the rena had to reef off new zealand it broke into and sank three months later taking with it hundreds of containers there are only rough estimates of how many steel boxes go overboard each