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.

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.

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 ...

The disaster dumped more than 1,400 damaged shipping containers into the sea - releasing billions of plastic manufacturing pellets known as nurdles as well as thousands of tonnes of nitric acid, ...

Shipping containers have fallen into the sea after a cargo vessel tilted sideways off the Turkish coast. The dry cargo ship at Istanbul's Ambarli Mardas Port tilted on Monday morning, pictures show.

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.

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 ...