Container losses in recent years

There have been a number of spectacular container losses at sea in recent years that had a severe impact on insurers.

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  October 1998
  Container ship APL China +++ Typhoon in the Pacific +++ Over 300 containers lost +++ 700 containers damaged or destroyed +++ Insurers estimate cargo losses as high as US$ 100m
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  January 2000
  Container ship OOCL America +++ Long Beach, CA, bound for Kaohsiung, Taiwan +++ 300 containers
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  March 2001
  Choyang Park +++ Rotterdam, Netherlands, bound for New York +++ Severe weather in the North Atlantic +++ 90 containers
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  January 2003
  Maersk Carolina +++ Severe weather south of Newfoundland +++ 100 containers
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  January 2006
  P&O Nedlloyd Mondriaan +++ Le Havre, France, bound for New York +++ 27 containers North Atlantic
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  February 2006
  P&O Nedlloyd Mondriaan +++ 58 containers off the Dutch coast
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  February 2006
  5,762-TEU container ship CMA CGM Verdi +++ 80 containers near Cape Finisterre
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  February 2006
  8,488-TEU container ship CMA CGM Otello +++ 48 containers lost in the Bay of Biscay, 30 containers damaged
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  January 2007
  MSC Napoli ++ Devon coast ++ aprox. 100 containers