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Cleaning up debris and collecting shipping containers that fell off one of its vessels in the north sea the ship lost more than two hundred seventy containers during a storm earlier this week now damaged containers and their contents are washing up on dutch and german beaches. the t.v.s are easy its the styrofoam packaging thats harder to clean up just some of the washed up cargo that tumbled off the container ship not all containers sink some bob just beneath the surface creating a nasty hazard...

A lot of work for the dockers whose job it is to fasten the cargo as well as the twist locks on each box the containers are doubly secured so. you can see in the operator here that the containers are fixed with rods to the so-called gallery this is pure manual work and depending on how large the ships are it spites across several day. but thats not always enough huge vessels can roll dramatically in rough seas exacting tremendous centrifugal forces on stacked containers its what may have cost th...