Shipping companies and containership masters are responsible for preventing the loss of containers from their vessels, the Dutch Safety Board said in a report into the large loss of boxes from an Mediterranean Shipping Co vessel.

In a 114-page report, the Dutch Safety Board looked at the reasons for the loss of 342 boxes from the 19,224-teu MSC Zoe (built 2015) on the night of 1 January 2019 and the lessons learned from this.