I was on Col Andre Kritzinger's website and saw this: http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/grela/homepage.html Sort of train related with the containers. No wonder some of those shipments are late!
Even worse than being late from a grounding is that it is estimated that a whopping 10,000 of them are lost overboard every year!
Even worse than being late from a grounding is that it is estimated that a whopping 10,000 of them are lost overboard every year! </font>[/QUOTE]No wonder the sea level is rising. Since this occurs every year then I gather it is considered an "acceptable loss"? Any more info on this?
I wondered about that 10, 000 figure myself--that's 30 per day, every day. Then I did a little research--more than nine million containers enter the US in a year--that's just US imports. I assume we export about an equal number, so lets say 20 million containers. Singapore and Hong Kong each handle similar volumes. We're up to 60 million containers without considering the rest of the world. I can't find the final figure, but it's probably in the 250 million range. So 10,000 is indeed a pretty small loss.
I used to pick up computers at the Port Of Oakland and remember watching them loading cars into 40' containers. I wonder how many of them are on the bottom? I've always assumed they locked those down onto the ship (and each other) like they do on the semitrailers I used to pull. I've seen how they stack them in container yards at the port. It's hard to imagine they would stay put on a rocking ship!
Here is an older story from National Geographic about containers lost. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/06/0619_seacargo.html
True. Unless it's the one container that has your order of that engine for which you've waited a lifetime. Boxcab E50
Here is an older story from National Geographic about containers lost. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/06/0619_seacargo.html </font>[/QUOTE]Thanks!. I love usless trivial info like this. I talk about it and people think I'm soooo smart. LOL
The NG author says 100 million containers. So 10,000 is still pretty small. But I still think it's now more like 200 million. Funny, I ran across a site on that today but, in a panic to finish something else, passed by. I'll find it in "history" tomorrow, and see what it says.
Here's another site with a bunch of related info. It's amazing how many of those boxes are lost. http://www.cargolaw.com/cameras.html#camindex
I've seen that cargo law site. One series of picures they had, perhaps still there, shows a capsize in harbor. Seeing that, I can understand how quickly a whole batch of containers is lost. Although they pick them back out of the water, the contents are ruined. Boxcab E50
