A number of high-profile incidents in recent years have high-lighted the problem of mis-declaration by shippers of dangerous goods in containers which have been loaded and subsequently gone on fire causing the loss of the ship and her cargo. One large container carrier has developed watchdog software to detect suspicious containers. In 2014 the carrier investigated over 160,000 suspicious declarations and discovered over 2,600 cases of incorrectly declared dangerous goods. It is not a small problam and one over which ships officers have very little control but it is botter to be aware of it than not.