The 14,000 teu ONE Apus containership, owned by Chidori Ship Holding, managed by NYK Ship Management, and chartered to Ocean Network Express (ONE) has now turned back from its voyage between Yantian, China and Long Beach, US and is headed to Japan.
According to a statement the ONE Apus encountered a violent storm cell producing gale-force winds and large swells, roughly 1,600 nm northwest of Hawaii at 23-15 hrs local time on 30 November. As result of heavy rolling of the vessel it is estimated that more than 1,900 containers could have been lost overboard of the vessel on 1 December.
The vessel is now sailing to Japan and the owners and managers are seeking a suitable port where it will be possible to right unstable container stacks and assess the damage. It is the second incident of containers lost overboard to hit ONE recently with sistership to the ONE Apus, the 2018-built, 14,052 teu, Panama-flagged ONE Aquila suffering a loss of containers in severe weather on 30 October also while sailing to the Port of Long Beach. The ONE Aquila was diverted to the Port of Tacoma to offload damaged containers and undergo repairs returning to service on 11 November.
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