0 drifting containers in force
Shipping containers lost overboard and reported adrift or semi-submerged.
What the archive shows
The available drifting containers archive contains 1,042 messages across 30 issue years, from 1997 to 2026. The year links below provide the source and sea-area breakdowns for each period.
The NGA archive froze in 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. Counts near that gap are incomplete. Separate messages may describe updates to the same activity.
- Nothing in force right now.
Archive by year · 1,042 since 1997
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Terms used in containers warnings
- Adrift
- Loose and moving with wind and current — a vessel, container, buoy, log or anything else no longer secured.
- Lost containers
- Shipping containers lost overboard, reported floating or semi-submerged, often in groups after a single incident.
- Semi-submerged
- Floating at or just below the surface, so hard to see by eye or radar.
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