A containership berthed at the port of Shanghai lost as many as 30 containers overboard after the stacks toppled over like dominoes for apparently unknown reasons. The timestamp on the port’s surveillance video shows the incident happened on Wednesday morning, 12 November 2014. As you can see, plenty of containers were damaged, but luckily nobody was reported injured in the incident.
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