Category: Box Ships
North Sea Collision (Grimsby)
Anchored oil tanker (Stena Immaculate) hit by Madeira-flagged cargo ship (Solong): Apparently 20 crew on Stena Immaculate, so maybe 12 on Solong? It’s a baby boat: 140/22m. All evacuated.
Copenhagen IV: Matador
Det praktiske ved dig er at de har Deres egen skov (“The practical thing about you is that you have your own forest”, S4E6) 1978-1982. 4 Seasons of 6 episodes. The show every Dane has apparently watched, which makes a lot of sense now. Could have been the story of this family: Feeling more Danish.
Copenhagen III: Helsingør Maritime Museum
Hamlet’s castle is not technically in CPH, but it is just up the “whisky belt” – Strandvejen, or “Beach Road”, passing Hellerup; Charlottenlund; Rungsted, where Karen Blixen’s small herregård is now a museum; Humlebæk, home to Louisiana; and finally Elsinore, where the museum is located underground about 20m from the castle. Image below possibly a…
Insights from a Danish Architect
Svend and Wai Ling Hvass lived in Swaziland when we were younger (possibly left late 80s?). Their son Hans was a best friend of sorts: his grandfather in Denmark sent Danish Donald Duck (Anders And) comics every week, and I got to share the stash, not to mention the strange delight of my friend peppering…
Copenhagen I
Made it to HQ on the bus boat (or boat bus – whatever the commuting vessel for normal people is called; ie. not the expensive tourist “See Copenhagen” ones, but literally a normal bus ticket – brilliant!). Cranes at the container terminal clearly more efficient than one human operating an 8-wheeler, as in CT. Need…
Red Sea vs. Cape of Good Hope
From gCaptain: Meanwhile, from Splash: This is worth quoting in full: Ships taking the alternative, non-Houthi route between Asia and Europe face another perilous situation, namely the rough seas around South Africa. The 6,966 teu MSC Antonia lost 46 boxes overboard last week during severe weather conditions with another 305 containers damaged, according the increasingly…
MSC Nederland II and Crystal Serenity
I’ve been distracted by things, and injured by a stupid Swede who didn’t observe a white line indicating “STOP” a week ago: This morning I got bored of my pity party and got back to Maker’s to catch some meaningful offloading on a rainy Saturday morning (MSC N II, Panama flag, 237m): Then came the…
DALI vs. Francis Scott Bridge (V)
It’s like the flyover to the N2 from Hospital Bend, tow trucks chillaxing under the bridge, waiting for something to go down. We used to call them vultures, which is a bad analogy because vultures don’t sit around waiting for fresh blood (I think?). So this one’s better. Some of those tug thugs are seriously…
DALI vs. Francis Scott Bridge (IV)
Dali remains where it collided with/destroyed (etc.) the bridge on Tuesday 26 March (19 days so far; it’s going to be a LOT longer). Thankful as usual for much wisdom from The Loadstar on what, how, whom: NB. learning:
DALI vs. Francis Scott Bridge (III)
Everyone’s a fucking expert now. Some facts that are at least legally true (from Synergy Marine Group, who manage the boat (chartered by Maersk, flagged Singapore): Plus, the salvage op by a company we’ve seen up close is on pause.