Drifting containers in 2024

Shipping containers lost overboard and reported adrift or semi-submerged.

issued in 2024
6
still in force
0
vs 2023
-62%
first · last
01-15 · 04-07

Coverage note: the NGA archive ends 2024-05 and live collection began 2026-08-17. Warnings issued in between are here only if they were still in force when collection started, so this year is under-counted.

By month

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By NAVAREA series

  • HYDROLANT5
  • HYDROPAC1

Where · top seas

Bay of Biscay350%
North Atlantic Ocean233%
South Pacific Ocean117%

All drifting containers issued in 2024 · 6

  1. HYDROLANT 730/242024-04-07 → 2024-04-10
    15 containers adrift in 47-20.00N 007-35.00W
    Celtic Sea
  2. HYDROLANT 474/242024-03-07 → 2024-03-10
    Container adrift in 43-37.0N 005-31.0W at 071038Z mar
    Bay of Biscay · Spain
  3. HYDROLANT 431/242024-03-02 → 2024-03-05
    Thirteen container adrift in 43-34.00N 004-43.00W
    Bay of Biscay · Spain
  4. HYDROLANT 429/242024-03-02 → 2024-03-02
    Six containers adrift in 43-34.10N 004-43.10W at 010001Z mar
    Bay of Biscay · Spain
  5. HYDROPAC 450/242024-02-07 → 2024-02-10
    Numerous containers adrift in area within five miles of kaitorete spit (43-49.66S 172-33.28E) at 060001Z feb
    Western South Pacific · New Zealand
  6. HYDROLANT 116/242024-01-15 → 2024-01-18
    Red container adrift in 30-30.00N 009-45.00W at 152000 jan 24
    Eastern North Atlantic · Morocco

Sea boundaries: Flanders Marine Institute (2018), IHO Sea Areas v3, marineregions.org (CC BY 4.0). Not for navigation — follow official NAVAREA / coastal broadcasts and your national MSI service.

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