{"id":227991,"date":"2026-03-20T04:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T04:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227991\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T04:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T04:20:07","slug":"coast-guard-offloading-damaged-shipping-containers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227991\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard offloading damaged shipping containers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Coast Guard is working to safely move off <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/09\/us-news\/over-60-shipping-containers-tumble-off-boat-and-crash-into-long-beach-port\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more than 100 shipping containers<\/a> from a cargo ship at the Port of Long Beach in what was described as a precarious situation.<\/p>\n<p>Aerial views Thursday showed multiple containers stacked and on the verge of dangerously teetering into the water. A video showed many of the large containers in uneven <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DWEdgHRApoG\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">and awkward positions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Contractors have inspected each container and are conducting air monitoring and heat detection.<\/p>\n<p>Video showed many of the large containers in uneven and awkward positions.<\/p>\n<p>A 100-yard safety zone was established around the vessel.<\/p>\n<p>The OOCL Sunflower departed from Taiwan on Feb. 23 but <a href=\"https:\/\/incidentnews.noaa.gov\/incident\/11131\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">encountered heavy weather <\/a>in the Northern Pacific. The vessel and its 27 crew members were OK but 32 containers fell overboard, officials said. Around 60 containers were damaged and 42 were offset.<\/p>\n<p>It arrived in Long Beach on March 12, but the vessel was kept offshore for several days as officials were concerned about the stability of the remaining cargo. The ship had a capacity of 16,828 20-foot cargo containers. <\/p>\n<p>The containers contained raw materials used to manufacture semiconductors and rubber, propellants, and refrigerants, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/coast-guard-working-offload-damaged-ship-containers-port-long-beach\/18736328\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ABC 7 reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Contractors have inspected each container and are conducting air monitoring and heat detection. There haven\u2019t been any reports of pollution at the port so far. A 100-yard safety zone was established around the vessel, <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/california\/longbeach-ca\/battered-ship-arrives-long-beach-cargo-stacks-hanging-near-collapse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to the Patch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Coast Guard is working to safely move off more than 100 shipping containers from a cargo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,15610,29225,131,133,132,4182,43437,3586],"class_list":["post-227991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-coast-guard","tag-container","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-metro","tag-taiwan","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227991","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=227991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}