[image] Massive Cargo Loss: Estimated 1,900 Containers Lost or Damaged on ONE Apus –... Yesterday we reported that the containership ONE Apus lost a “significant” number of containers overboard during a storm in the mid-Pacific. Today we’re learning more about just how many were... Est…

The One Apus would have had aboard some sophisticated routing software linked by satellite to both professional ship routers and to company ship operations. All this chief mate setting the course and the like is uninformed nonsense.

[image] Kennebec_Captain: All this chief mate setting the course and the like is uninformed nonsense. Consider the source.

All we have now is a screenshot from MarineTraffic, to ‘read’ where they changed course: at about the latitude of the JP-port of Sendai = 38°N at about the longitude of the easternmost point of the northern JP-island Hokkaido = 146°E From there, the course to Long Beach was: by Great Circle, in…

[image] Urs: The final decision to make this change was indeed by the captain. That’s always going to be the case. Sometimes the recommend route is in error. The captain can email and ask for a correction to have the route adjusted or just ignore the recommendation. I’ve called a couple o…

[image] Drone survey suggests ONE Apus cargo claims could top $200m - Splash247 Unloading of containers of the badly damaged is proceeding slowly at the Japanese port of Kobe with the operation to remove all boxes expected to take more than a month. The 14,000 teu vessel ran into a storm i…

Thanks a lot. The ship was undamaged and returning to Kobe after the lost deck cargo incident. No risk to sink, etc. No General Average. But plenty deck cargo had shifted or got lost. The question is how deck cargo FEU twist locks and lashing bars were damaged to allow this. Did the twist locks shea…

stabilizer on vessel One Apus…?

What happened on the ONE Apus ? Why did so many boxes go over the side? It may be too soon to say. The ship just arrived in Kobe, Japan , and will be the subject of a detailed investigation as soon as the remaining damaged boxes are unloaded. That being said, one possible explanation is that ONE Apus …

No, I just think that the cause of the incident was too high speed decided by Master/Shore office and that the poor 3/O on the bridge just followed orders. The ship then collided with some big waves in the dark night and stopped, plenty bottom twist locks keeping the deck cargo secured to the deck s…

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