Clean-up begins after Maersk loses shipping containers in North Sea
The clean-up has begun on Danish beaches after dozens of Maersk shipping containers were lost at sea due to stormy weather.
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00:00 The cleanup has begun on Danish beaches after dozens of containers were lost at sea due
00:07 to stormy weather.
00:08 A Maersk ship lost 46 containers off the northern Jutland coast just before Christmas whilst
00:14 en route from Bremerhaven to Gdansk.
00:16 Now everything from fridges, needles and shoes are adrift at sea.
00:20 Maersk said containers were lost due to rough weather.
00:23 "We are in a really bad situation.
00:30 We take full responsibility and we are there until there is a clean-up.
00:33 But the cleanup work must be done together with the local authorities who have the knowledge."
00:37 The containers were thought to be adrift between Hansdalm and Skagen off the coast of northern
00:41 Jutland.
00:43 Local fishermen are worried about bumping into containers and other fragments.
00:47 Locals have been warned by authorities not to touch anything that washes ashore.
00:51 The incident happened when storm Pyr hit Denmark coast earlier this week.
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