Six years ago, the MSC Zoe lost several hundred containers in the North Sea - and for hours the crew didn't notice. Researchers are now working on ways to minimise the extent of such accidents.
Six years ago, the "MSC Zoe" was one of the largest container ships in the world: a good 395 metres long and 59 metres wide, it can load over 19,000 standard containers (TEU). The Panamanian-flagged ship was on its way from Portugal to Bremerhaven on the night of 2 January 2019 when it happened: A total of 342 boxes went overboard in several batches in bad weather off the Dutch and German coasts. This is according to the report presented by investigators from the German Federal Bureau of Maritime Casualty Investigation (BSU) together with colleagues from the Netherlands and Panama on 25 June 2020.
Due to the environmental damage, the investigators categorised the accident as a very serious marine casualty. The containers that fell into the sea weighed an estimated 3,257 tonnes and
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