Category: Box Ships
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,
Als Flora
261m. Singapore flag. A bit on the lazy side.
Hedwig Schulte
275m. Hong Kong. It was a slow day at the port. On a Monday.
Anchorage, Alaska
Home of the third largest cargo airport in the world (first is Hong Kong, and then Memphis. Ahead, even, of Shanghai!). Colour me surprised, and cleverer. (Who knew Memphis is the logistics hub of America?) Thanks, Mike King of The Loadstar Podcast (E14, Nov 23/23). Anchorage is also the name of a rather lovely song…
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:
New words (I)
Cetacean: Should I be embarrassed that I didn’t learn this word till today? I’ve known about coelacanths forever, and they don’t even exist anymore. (But I might have thought that a dolphin is actually a fish, which IS an embarrassing obstacle to grouping dolphins and whales in the same taxonomic drawer.) I shall now go…
