On average, around 1,000 to 2,000 shipping containers fall off vessels each year. This number can vary based on weather conditions, accidents, and the size of the vessels in operation. The World Shipping Council estimates that incidents involving container losses have decreased in recent years, but the exact figures can fluctuate annually.
They do this for the same reason passenger take two or more planes to reach their final destination. Large ships carrying 4200+ containers transport them across large distances, such as oceans. It is not efficient for them to make many stops for each shipment of containers. The containers are offloaded at large ports and are loaded on smaller feeder ships, carrying around 1000 containers which travel to the final destinations.
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Many thousands of them, possibly millions, fall every day.
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