Container spill - APL England
Background
Just after 6:10am AEST on Sunday 24 May the ship, APL England, experienced a temporary loss of propulsion during heavy seas approximately 73 kilometres south east of Sydney.
At the time, the ship was on a journey from Ningbo, China to Melbourne, Australia.
During the power outage the ship reported that it was rolling heavily causing container stacks to collapse and a reported 40 containers to fall overboard in waters approximately 2km deep.
This was later revised to 50 containers.
The Master of the APL England reported an additional 74 containers had been damaged and remained collapsed on the deck of the ship, while a further six containers were reported to be protruding from starboard side and three containers from the port side of the ship.
The ship entered the port of Brisbane, where an investigation was completed by the relevant authorities.
Media releases
- 16 July - New debris from shipping containers washes up after wild weather
- 18 June - NSW taxpayers spared the bill but not the rubbish
- 5 June 2020 - Coastal flights to determine effects of this week's wild weather on containers and debris
- 2 June 2020 - Hazardous weather impacts NSW coastline but does not hamper clean up effort
- 29 May 2020 - Scale of container clean up expands
- 27 May 2020 - Five shipping containers wash ashore near Norah Head
- 26 May 2020 - NSW coastal communities on high alert for debris
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