Why Do Containers Fall off Containerships? Madrid Bridge January 21, 2022 What's Going on With Shipping? On this episode of What's Going on With Shipping, host Sal Mercogliano - Chair of the Department of History, Criminal Justice, and Political Science, former merchant mariner, and instructor of Maritime History, Security and Industry Policy - discusses the issue of why containers fall off ships and we are seeing an increase in container collapses. Specifically, we examine the case of MV Madrid Bridge of ONE sailing from Singapore, via Gibraltar, to New York; then diverted to Charleston and now Savannah.