According to the news from Fleetmon, a professional maritime security website, many lost containers were found in the North Pacific waters southeast of Kamchatka.
It is reported that the containers were dropped from Maersk’s container ship “Dyros”.
Some media said that on March 20, local time, the “Dyros” ship had a container drop accident on its way from Yantian Port in China to the Port of Seattle in the United States. The cause of the accident may be bad weather during the voyage.
Ship News data shows that as of 16:00 on March 24, Beijing time, the ship had sailed to the southern part of Unalashka Island in Alaska.
It is understood that the “Dyros” wheel container capacity is 4578TEU. It was built in 2008 and hangs the Liberian flag. The vessel, formerly known as “CO Kobe”, was acquired by shipowner Costamare in June 2021 and is currently leased to Maersk for operation.
Maersk’s official website schedule shows that the “Dyros” ship is deployed on the Asia-US West TP7 route, and is currently performing voyage 209N. The voyage departed from Busan Port and called at Qingdao Port, Shanghai Port and Yantian Port in turn, and was scheduled to arrive at Seattle Port on March 27.
WK Webster, a marine claims consultancy, reports that the overboard cargo of the Dyros, as well as damage to the remaining cargo on board, cannot be estimated until the ship arrives at the Port of Seattle.