Category: Box Ships
DALI vs. Francis Scott Bridge (II)
(Ed. note – couldn’t decide if this was a part deux (II) or needs a new category… Boxship SOS? Boxes Stopping? BoxStop! StopBox? Agency is slippery here.) Today is Good Friday, when Jesus dies again, and 45 real people have just been reported dead in Limpopo after the bus they were traveling on from Gaborone…
DALI vs. Francis Scott Bridge
300m. Singapore flag. Bridge down 1.27am ET. There are vehicles and people in the (approx 9C) water. At least it didn’t do a hit and run (VF screenshot from 5.30am ET). Still, it’s not the best look.
Google vs. boxes
When I first started teaching a module on Globalisation for a course on learning how to think about things happening in the world, the big story was China vs. Google. The Americans had agreed to – and subsequently violated – numerous conditions laid out by the Chinese government for the roll-out of a search bar…
CMA CGM Masai Mara
240m. Belgian flag. An even stranger name than Bear Ridge Mountain. WTF? Makes me think of House of Cards and Kenyan warriors. But pretty in its way – for a giant that is tranquil. Well-laden. Stable. Why leave? It’s not like anything was happening. Anymore, after the “death ship” livestock carrier finally left and carried…
MSC Capri (and “optimism” about SA ports)
207m. LIberian flag. A baby, really. But shame, there was at least something going on (look carefully for the box in transit, which moved so fast I almost missed it), even though the port(s) apparently closed early today because of an “unexpected union meeting.” (This was a little blow for Chad, whose box of Farmina…
Canals (I)
Found a 3-part documentary charmingly titled Suez: A Very British Crisis, which I have yet to watch. Aperitivo: “The Story of British Canals”, in which I learned a number of interestoids (IODs). IOD 1: IOD 2: IOD 3: IOD 4: IOD 5: * Speaking of “hopeful investors”, I’m reading a book my mother stumbled upon…
Queen Mary 2, the cost of VOR, and stuff
No visits to Maker’s this week, as the cruise ships kept coming. On Wednesday (31 Jan), Queen Mary 2 (QM2). Slightly less boring, as she’s apparently the “only ocean liner in service in the world”. (Unlike “normal” cruise ships, ocean liners carry people, things, and mail. JR and family arrived in SA on one such…
Boxes Overboard (II). And Lego.
Denmark was not happy about the embarrassing December incident involving boxes falling off a Maersk giant due to a large storm in the North Sea. Not (reportedly) because it had anything to do with a Danish shipping company, but because of having to confront debris on West Coast beaches just before Christmas… Now, someone’s read…
MSC Helena
Supply chain from boat to truck (on a Sunday morning, nogal): Meanwhile, the cruise ship was getting a new load of “fresh” fruit (sniffed by dogs – as if the geriatrics stumbling between the V&A and this vessel are not more obvious mules for getting drugs on board – and sampled by “inspecting” crew –…
Maersk Chennai
249m. Singapore Flag. A lot of boxes; little weight. Blank? And a Grey Fox with tugs in choppy waters. 180m, Marshall Islands. Perhaps most interestingly today, the Kuala Lumpur Express (Hapag Lloyd, filled with ONLY Hapag Lloyd boxes, all white, like a Lego boat.)