{"id":227090,"date":"2026-03-19T16:08:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227090\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T16:08:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:08:48","slug":"crews-at-port-of-long-beach-work-to-stabilize-containers-on-ship-that-encountered-rough-seas-long-beach-post-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227090\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews at Port of Long Beach work to stabilize containers on ship that encountered rough seas \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salvage work was expected to begin today to remove damaged shipping containers from a vessel at the Port of Long Beach that had a rough Pacific voyage from Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>The OOCL Sunflower has a safety zone around the ship, which was reported to have encountered 20-foot waves near the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, according to various news reports.<\/p>\n<p>Containers fell into the sea and others were damaged and left teetering, requiring crews to stabilize them before carefully removing the cargo.<\/p>\n<p>The ship reached the coast last week, but wasn\u2019t brought into port until several days later, after inspections and the securing of containers at risk of falling.<\/p>\n<p>There were no reports so far of cargo falling from the ship into the port as happened last year in what officials said was an <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/business\/trade-transportation\/cause-container-spill-long-beach-closure\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unprecedented spill that sent dozens of containers<\/a> into the harbor water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Salvage work was expected to begin today to remove damaged shipping containers from a vessel at the Port&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-227090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}