ONE Apus scheduled to leave Japan this week ONE Apus
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American Shipper
Post Date
04/05/2021
AFTER its record-setting cargo loss in the Pacific Ocean last year, the Ocean Network Express-operated ONE Apus is getting ready to depart Japan following operations to disge collapsed and damaged containers.
A customer advisory last week said the ship is tentatively scheduled to depart Kobe on or around March 15. If so, the vessel will have an arrival date in Long Beach of around March 30, however, ONE warns that the schedule is subject to change and is without guarantee.
ONE said the general plan is to back-load as many original sound and trans-loaded containers on ONE APUS as reasonably possible.
"It is likely that some containers originally carried on ONE APUS may need to be carried on different vessels due to safety and/or operational constraints. Some containers may also be carried on different vessels if required documentation cant be completed before given cutoff time," the company said in the latest customer advisory on the situation.
The ONE Apus was underway from China to Long Beach, California when it lost an estimated 1,816 containers overboard in heavy weather approximately 1,600 nautical miles northwest of Hawaii on November 30. Hundreds of more were collapsed on deck, reports gCaptain, Ventura, California.
The incident was the worst in a serious of weather-related cargo losses on the trans-Pacific this season as ships loaded to the brim with cargo pour into the United States from China.
