Jacksonville-based company tallies loss of 181 shipping containers as barge returns to Florida

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Trailer Bridge barge looted off the coast of the Bahamas is now back in Jacksonville, ending a chaotic nine-day ordeal that left nearly every container on board broken into, stripped, or dumped into the ocean.

What began as a mechanical failure has spiraled into a damaging cargo loss for Trailer Bridge.

The trouble began on November 11, when the tug Southern Dawn suffered a mechanical failure during severe weather en route to Puerto Rico…

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