Hapag-Lloyd says it has registered a 65% increase in the number of incorrectly declared dangerous goods last year.

The German liner operator said it identified 4,314 such incidents in 2015 versus the 2,620 cases seen in the previous year.

Its dangerous goods experts examined more than 236,000 suspicious cases picked up by safety software last year, a 46% increase on the 162,000 in 2014.

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