The authority cited the boxship’s owner, Swiss Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), as saying that the new assessment emerged after MSC Zoe’s remaining containers have been unloaded at the Port of Gdansk in Poland.
Initial reports suggested that around 270 containers were lost from the vessel in a North Sea storm on January 2, while MSC Zoe was on its way to Bremerhaven, Germany. The estimates grew to some 290 boxes after the ship docked in Bremerhaven for inspection and to offload damaged containers.
The final report on the missing containers is expected to be released next week, Rijkswaterstaat said, adding that the number of containers with hazardous substances remains unchanged.
The authority earlier informed that the majority of containers were found at two locations, spread over a length of 23 miles above the Dutch municipalities Terschelling, Schiermonnikoog and east of this line.
Only days after the incident, MSC pledged to pay the full costs of the cleanup of the MSC Zoe container spill. The shipowner added it would “ensure that the beaches of the Dutch and German coastlines are surveyed until all debris related to this incident has been cleared.”
荷蘭公共工程和水資源管理部門Rijkswaterstaat告知，2019年1月初從MSC Zoe落下的集裝箱數量已躍升至345個。
該機構引用了該船的所有者瑞士地中海航運公司（MSC）的話說，新的評估是在MSC Zoe的剩餘集裝箱在波蘭格但斯克港卸下之後出現的。
初步報告顯示，1月2日北海暴風雨中約有270個集裝箱從船上丟失，而MSC Zoe正在前往德國不來梅港。在該船停靠在不來梅港進行檢查並卸下損壞的集裝箱後，估計增加到約290箱。
Rijkswaterstaat表示，關於丟失集裝箱的最終報告預計將在下周公布，並補充說，含有有害物質的集裝箱數量保持不變。
當局早些時候通知說，大多數集裝箱都在兩個地方被發現，分佈在荷蘭直轄市Terschelling，Schiermonnikoog以及該線以東23英里處。
事故發生僅幾天后，MSC保證支付清理MSC Zoe集裝箱掉落的全部費用。船東補充說，它將“ 確保對荷蘭和德國海岸線的海灘進行調查，直到與此事件相關的所有碎片都被清除。
Information source: World Maritime News Staff , Image Courtesy: BBC
