Over the past decade, roughly 1,000 shipping containers per year have fallen into the ocean, according to the World Shipping Council. David Lademan follows container markets at S&P Global Platts.

Cargo ships can lose anywhere from a single container to hundreds at a time in rough seas. Experts disagree on how many are lost each year. The World Shipping Council, an industry group, reports ...

Their research team was operating a remote-control vehicle at 4,200 feet (1,280 meters) below the surface to study deep-sea corals in 2004 when they were surprised to encounter a metal box.

What’s causing the recent rash of container losses on cargo vessels? The news has been full of stories about maritime accidents and containers toppling from ships into the sea. Ocean Network Express’s ...

On Thursday, the AP published a report detailing how more than 20,000 shipping containers have been lost at sea in the last decade and a half, spilling their diverse contents into marine ecosystems.

Their research team was operating a remote-control vehicle at 4,200 feet (1,280 meters) below the surface to study deep-sea corals in 2004 when they were surprised to encounter a metal box.

New mandatory reporting requirements for containers lost at sea were recently adopted by the IMO’s Maritime Safety Committee (MSC 108), and will take effect on January 1, 2026.

Scientists found a lost shipping container nearly 4,200 feet (1,300 meters) below the surface of their ocean and turned their chance discovery into an opportunity to study how aquatic life reacts ...

He details the journey — via plane, foot and container ship — in Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists and Fools ...

Shipping containers that are lost at sea can pose a number of different unseen hazards across oceans and land, a new report from The Associated Press (AP) revealed. On Thursday, the AP published a ...