Seroja-Lima

Aboard the 'Seroja Lima' at least 27 containers were lost and at least 90 more were damaged in the Atlantic in the vicinity of pos. 38 40 N 019 30 W, east of Azores, in the morning of Nov 20, 2020. Containers were spotted in the morning of Nov 20, several hours after they went over board. The ship was enroute from King Abdullah Port, where hse had sailed on Nov 11, to Newark with an ETA as of Nov 25 at that time. The port of destination was changed to Freeport on Nov 26, where she berthed at 7.50 p.m. the same day. Already on Nov 15, 2014 the ship had lost 27 containers off the port of Ngqura (Coega).

2 - 12 months trading Far East, 7250 $ daily, Maersk Line

On Nov 15, 2014, 23 containers dislodged and fell off the "Seroja Lima" in Algoa Bay in gale-force winds off Port Elizabeth’s Bluewater Bay area. NSRI Port Elizabeth duty crew were placed on alert by the Transnet National Ports Authority. Until Nov 19 six of the containers had been located. Two of them washed ashore east of the Sundays River mouth. None of the containers contained any toxic or dangerous materials. Reports had been received from Nelson Mandela Bay residents of sightings of large boxes in the ocean since Nov 16. Samsa warned smaller craft to be on the look-out for the 12m-long boxes, and has cautioned against trying to tow them. On Nov 22 at 3.20 p.m. the NSRI Port Elizabeth duty crew launched the "Eikos Rescuer IV" to mark one of the containers which had been spotted by a passing ship 25 nautical miles off-shore. The ship had marked the position and the salvagers tasked to locate and recover the containers were informed and NSRI Port Elizabeth requested to mark the container for easy location later. But on arrival in the area it was discovered that the information from the ship was six hours old and the container was nowhere to be found at the given coordinates, so the NSRI boat returned to base. Ships maintained a look out for the remaining missing containers and Telkom Maritime radio Services continued to broadcast and all ships alert warning of the danger and to be on the look out and report any sightings of containers. Reports with photos: http://traveller24.news24.com/News/Beachgoers-asked-to-be-on-the-lookout-for-missing-shipping-containers-20141119 http://www.heraldlive.co.za/six-containers-located-loss-cargo-algoa-bay/ http://www.netwerk24.com/nuus/2014-11-16-stormwind-keer-soektog-na-houers-in-baai