Category: Maersk
Costs of the Red Sea in 2024
Maersk is in and out of the Red Sea, which seems like poor decision-making on the part of new(ish) non-Danish CEO. He’ll get boardroom tut tuts for what he probably thought was a mighty bold fuck you to what’s actually happening in the world. Meanwhile, it’s costing lives and livelihoods. FreightWaves: BBC: Eddie Skoller was…
Boxes Overboard (I)
“There are widespread reports of debris washing up on beaches along the northern part of Denmark’s North Sea shoreline after a Maersk containership lost boxes overboard. The shipping line is confirming that it learned of the incident early on Friday, December 22, and will be investigating the extent of the damage. The authorities in Denmark…
CMA CGM KRIBI
255m. Maltese flag. Meanwhile,
Maersk Danube (II)
Duncan Dock was a positive hub of activity today with getting boxes off this big boy, who’s only been waiting since Monday. (This action took at least 4mins.) Might be funny to quip about going back tomorrow to watch another box come off. In a world where that sort of joke is funny. Instead, should…
Maersk Danube
256m. Flag: Singapore. I missed the tug action because of golf. Meanwhile, local news uses numbers to confuse people:
Hamburg Süd and Dr. Oetker Pizza
Occam’s boring razor will most likely prevail, ie. that she just missed her slot and now has to wait her turn. But check this (Wikipedia): Dr. Oetker as in frozen pizza? Yup. For the next time someone tries to deny a connection between box ships and a pizza which might just be in their freezer.
Panama Canal
From NYT, 1 November, “Drought Saps the Panama Canal, Disrupting Global Trade”: From FreightWaves, 1 November: The NB. bit for an Exec. Summary: So things are not looking good for large vessels (and their owners) who were relying on that artificial shortcut from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean to get stuff in their boxes to…