A barge collided with houses and private houses in the Gig Harbor, near Tacoma, after it’s believed the Master of the towing vessel fell asleep at the wheel.

The ONE Apus has departed the Port of Kobe three months after the containership berthed to offload damaged containers and conduct repairs.

The Maersk Eindhoven is waiting to berth at the Port of Yokohama having lost 260 containers overboard on 17 February.

A three-to-four-minute loss of engine power resulted in the Maersk Eindhoven losing 260 containers overboard and damage to a further 65 on deck in heavy weather.

The unloading and inspection of damaged containers from the boxship ONE Apus looks set to be completed around mid-March allowing the vessel to depart the Port of Kobe.

In the latest loss of containers overboard in heavy weather the Maersk Eindhoven is believed to have lost “several hundred” boxes during a transpacific voyage.

With losses of containers overboard already in focus following the ONE Apus incident the 13,092 teu Maersk Essen has lost 750 boxes in the Pacific.

Enforcement of regulations is “critically important” in the issue of tackling container fires, says mutual insurer TT Club.

Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) chief Junichiro Ikeda said in his New Year message the company must pledge to never allow another accident like the Wakashio.

The painstaking work to discharge containers from storm damaged ONE Apus are set continue on Tuesday at the Port of Kobe after a break over the Japanese New Year holiday.