Deep-sea vessels that recently went adrift off B.C.’s coast highlight marine shipping risks

The standing committee on fisheries and oceans says that Canada’s waters are vulnerable to marine cargo container spills, and produced 29 recommendations for change

In late December, two deep-sea vessels went adrift off the west coast of Vancouver Island.

The risk of cargo accidents at sea is clearly not limited to oil tankers: Container ships loaded with plastics, polystyrene foam and hazardous chemicals are routinely plying these waters – materials that can persist in the marine environment for decades. The ships also run on bunker fuel – a bulk carrier can hold up to three million litres, and the Tecumseh is one of the largest ships of its kind in the world.

An early warning came in November of 2016, when the Hanjin Seattle cargo ship lost 35 containers in rough seas near the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Its owners were eventually forced toduring a storm off Tofino Robert Lewis-Manning, president of the B.C.-based Chamber of Shipping, said the two near misses in December show that Canada’s emergency response capacity is improving.

Nationally, marine shipping policy is changing as well, he said. Canada has policies and procedures for marine oil spills, but now it is developing a framework to deal with a broader set of marine pollution incidents. “Hazardous and noxious substances is something that we’re going to be moving into. The Zim Kingston really catalyzed that.”

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