Containers

Containers adrift in 26-43.4N 121-14.6E at 290915Z sep

Eastern China Sea · HYDROPAC 2970/16

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2016-10-02 12:25Z

This notice comes from the historical archive. Its archived status does not establish when or how the reported situation ended.

Source and dates: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · NAVAREA XI 573/16 291037Z SEP 16.. Issued 2016-09-29 12:25Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:38Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:46Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered: Eastern China Sea. The parsed report position is 26.723, 121.243. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Eastern China Sea →

issued: 2016-09-29 12:25Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2016-10-02 12:25Z
authority: NAVAREA XI 573/16 291037Z SEP 16.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
sea: Eastern China Sea
position: 26.723, 121.243
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

EAST CHINA SEA.
CHINA.
DNC 23.
1. CONTAINERS ADRIFT IN 26-43.4N 121-14.6E
   AT 290915Z SEP.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 021225Z OCT 16.

Reading this warning

DNC (Digital Nautical Chart): A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
Lost containers: Shipping containers lost overboard, reported floating or semi-submerged, often in groups after a single incident.
Adrift: Loose and moving with wind and current — a vessel, container, buoy, log or anything else no longer secured.
Position (degrees and minutes): How warnings write positions: degrees, a hyphen, then minutes, with N/S and E/W — 49-40.8N 003-43.8W.
Date-time group (DTG): A compact UTC timestamp — day, hour and minute followed by Z — such as 201500Z for the 20th at 15:00 UTC.
CANCEL THIS MSG: The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

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Collected reports in this area · drifting containers

3 within 180 nm since 2005 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

Counts include repeat notices about the same situation. NGA archive coverage ends 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. The period between them is incomplete. An empty year is not evidence that no hazards occurred.

Container adrift vicinity 27-56.8N 122-24.1E at 120112Z jul2014-07-12
Numerous containers adrift vicinity 26-15.6N 122-43.6E2005-09-11

Month of issue in the collected archive

All available years combined. Uneven collection and repeat bulletins affect these counts; this chart does not measure the seasonality or probability of incidents.

Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.

Worldwide in the collected sources

0 drifting containers listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 21:56Z; source collection times vary.

Containers

Shipping containers lost overboard and reported adrift or semi-submerged. All current drifting containers →

Not for navigation. This is a re-rendering of an official navigational warning for awareness; mariners must use official NAVAREA broadcasts and their national MSI service.