There are more than 6,000 container ships operating at sea on a continuous basis, according to the WSC. "However, it is important to note that winds weakened dramatically in February, and the really strong winds were confined to late December into January, so it wasn't an all-winter thing like it was in the El Niño winter of 2015-16." "To be honest, the strongest winds in the North Pacific typically happen during El Niño winters, so it was a bit surprising that this happened in a La Niña winter," Crawford said. The winds weren't linked to any particular trend or weather pattern, he said. Those months are among the roughest in the North Pacific in any given year, but winds this winter were stronger than usual, Todd Crawford, chief meteorologist for The Weather Company, told on Wednesday.Ĭrawford analyzed data going back to 1948, and found that this winter had the second strongest winds on record. It's one of the biggest such losses on record, according to American Shipper.Īnother ship, the Maersk Essen, lost about 750 containers on its way from Xiamen, China, to the Port of Los Angeles on Jan.
The first, a vessel named One Apus, lost 1,816 containers as it sailed into a storm about 1,600 nautical miles northwest of Hawaii on Nov 30. The bulk of the more than 2,675 containers lost in that time came from two ships that reportedly encountered bad weather in the North Pacific. 31, 2021, trade magazine American Shipper reported. An average of 1,382 containers were lost each year between 20.īut nearly double that number, the highest in 7 years, went overboard in five incidents during just a two month period from Nov. Thousands of shipping containers have fallen overboard in recent months as massive new ships, demand for products from overseas during the pandemic as well as weather this winter combined to make ocean transport more challenging.Ībout 226 million containers are transported via ship each year with cargo valued at more than $4 trillion, according to the World Shipping Council.
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