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Cargo ships can lose anywhere from a single container to hundreds at a time in rough seas.
Trade group says 250 million containers cross the oceans every year.
More than 20,000 shipping containers have tumbled overboard in the last decade and a half.
Their varied contents have washed onto shorelines, poisoned fisheries and animal habitats.
In February , cargo ship President Eisenhower lost 24 containers off the central California coast.
Debris washed ashore near Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary , a federally protected area.
Each bale was too heavy to drag away — instead they had to be cut up, each filling two dump trucks.
Long-term impact of adding on average more than a thousand containers each year to the world’s oceans remains unknown.
A study shows 9% of ultra-large ships had experienced container losses, compared to just 1% of smaller vessels.
Accidents are often linked to cargo that has been inaccurately labeled, weighed or stored.
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