Category: Box Ships
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…
Maersk Chennai
249m. Apparently off to Jebel Ali (UAE) next. Singaporean flag. (Cruise ship Vasco da Gama has fucked off.) Yesterday we built a container. Probably should have started with the NB. instruction to get glue. Still, a lesson in engineering and Malcom Maclean’s big idea for standardizing boxes and how every little bit has a function.
Dallas Express
294m. Hapag-Lloyd.
Lori Monrovia
228m. My first good look at a rudder that human beings could be desperate enough to stowaway on, as reported most recently by the BBC on 12 Aug (“Fourteen Days Across the Atlantic, Perched on a Ship’s Rudder”) with below images of four Nigerians who ended up – barely – in Brazil after clambering onto…