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.

A shipping container that toppled from an 18-wheeler is causing a traffic issue, Houston police said.

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 ...

SOME 24 shipping containers have fallen overboard from two cargo vessels off the Isle of Wight during the height of Storm Goretti, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has confirmed.

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

Some of the 16 shipping containers mostly filled with bananas that fell off a cargo ship were "not properly secured", an investigation has suggested. They fell from the Baltic Klipper cargo ship off ...