An MSC containership has become the latest giant boxship to lose containers overboard in the Pacific Ocean. Cargo casualty firm WK Webster reports that the MSC Aries lost about 41 containers overboard as it sailed from Long Beach, California to China on January 29. MSC has since confirmed the incident and informs that the containers…

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Ocean Plastic Pollution Could Triple By 2040

by Joe Brock (Reuters) – The amount of plastic waste flowing into the ocean and killing marine life could triple in the next 20 years, unless companies and governments can drastically reduce plastic production, a new study published on Thursday said. Single-use plastic consumption has increased during the coronavirus pandemic, according to the International Solid…

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THE ARCTIC OCEAN

The Arctic Ocean is surrounded by the continents of the Circumpolar North; it is the shallowest of the World’s oceans, with an average depth of just over 1000 m and a maximum depth of about 5000 m. It has extensive shelf seas along the coastlines – particularly north of Eurasia – which play a key…

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