Swiss shipping line MSC has started cleaning up Dutch sea waters, 10 days after it lost nearly 300 containers from one of its largest cargo vessels in a storm.
“The clean up will likely take months”, Dutch water authorities spokesman Edwin de Feijter said on Jan. 12. “The largest part of the debris has been located, but there are still parts missing.”
291 containers, some holding hazardous chemicals, fell off one of the world’s largest container ships, the MSC Zoe, on Jan. 2 in German waters near the island of Borkum during a North Sea storm.
Seventeen containers washed up on shore on the Dutch islands of Terschelling, Vlieland, Ameland and Schiermonnikoog, with the debris of many others littering the islands’ beaches.
MSC, the world’s no. 2 container shipping group, on Jan. 9 said it had made significant progress on the Dutch islands, with a total of 1,220 tons of debris collected so far.
Dutch authorities in early January said they would hold MSC liable for the cost of cleaning up the waters.
Roughly 100 soldiers joined the clean-up operation, while local authorities and volunteers had already gathered up tonnes of waste from several kilometres of coastline.
“The clean up will likely take months”, Dutch water authorities spokesman Edwin de Feijter said on Jan. 12. “The largest part of the debris has been located, but there are still parts missing.”
291 containers, some holding hazardous chemicals, fell off one of the world’s largest container ships, the MSC Zoe, on Jan. 2 in German waters near the island of Borkum during a North Sea storm.
Seventeen containers washed up on shore on the Dutch islands of Terschelling, Vlieland, Ameland and Schiermonnikoog, with the debris of many others littering the islands’ beaches.
MSC, the world’s no. 2 container shipping group, on Jan. 9 said it had made significant progress on the Dutch islands, with a total of 1,220 tons of debris collected so far.
Dutch authorities in early January said they would hold MSC liable for the cost of cleaning up the waters.
Roughly 100 soldiers joined the clean-up operation, while local authorities and volunteers had already gathered up tonnes of waste from several kilometres of coastline.
