HM Coastguard says it is monitoring the situation and sending up an aircraft.

A container is washed up in Elmer after three ships recently lost cargo near the Isle of Wight.

Shipping containers falling into UK waters is "no surprise" according to an expert in oceanography and maritime conditions.

Shipping containers mostly carrying bananas were seen washed ashore on Selsey beach on England’s south coast on Sunday, December 7, after falling off a cargo ship the day before, HM Coastguard said. A ...

Five containers that washed ashore in West Sussex after falling overboard from a ship off the Isle of Wight will start being cleared today. The Maritime Coastguard Agency (MCA) said that 16 containers ...

Two containers which fell off a cargo ship in the Solent have washed ashore. Two of the containers which fell from the Baltic Klipper off the coast of the Isle of Wight on Saturday evening have washed ...

Over Christmas, vegetables, bananas and insulation foam washed up on beaches along England's southeast coast. They were from ...

A container ship operated by CULines has lost nearly two dozen containers overboard off the coast of northern Taiwan, ...

A number of shipping containers went into the sea after falling overboard from vessels off the Isle of Wight on Thursday amid Storm Goretti.