Up to 50 of the 81 containers lost from the 'YM Efficiency' have been located on the ocean floor off the New South Wales (NSW) coast. The identified containers have ranged in condition, with some being broken apart and some totally intact. The ship’s insurers contracted the Port of Newcastle to provide their hydrographic survey vessel to conduct a five-day search on June 22. The search has been described as successful, however poor weather conditions have caused delays and the search has been suspended until later this week. The risk the containers could pose to maritime operations, especially trawler fish operations, will be properly assessed once the survey has been finished and the collected data can be processed by surveyors. The search area for the containers has been focused on high priority areas around where the containers were originally lost from the vessel, with computer modelling software predicting where containers were most likely to be found. The number of lost containers was revised down to 81 on June 29, and two containers were identified after washing up on the shores of Fingal Head and Yaacaba Headland — leaving 29 containers still unaccounted for if the provisional figure of 50 newly identified containers is accurate. The ship was underway to Sydney from Taiwan on May 31, when rough sea conditions on the Tasman Sea caused the 81 containers to fall overboard — damaging 30 others in the process.
WORLD SHIPPING
04 July 2018 - 13:42
50 of 81 lost containers located
Up to 50 of the 81 containers lost from the 'YM Efficiency' have been located on the ocean floor off the New South Wales (NSW) coast
WORLD SHIPPING
04 July 2018 - 13:42
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