Tag: Global Shipping
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…
Copenhagen II
Part of UN City Copenhagen, apparently the biggest humanitarian warehouse in the world: Bit difficult to square with its proximity to what used to be a cruise terminal and now an exclusive Padel club. We didn’t see limousines, but plenty of Teslas.
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…
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…
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…
Outside the Frame: Ramallah
Less than a month ago I messaged my sister to ask if she was OK after learning that she was in Ramallah for work. Today, in that terrifying party or the world (thanks, WhatsApp), this: And these images of Palestinians going about prayers during Ramadan next to the rubble of a destroyed mosque: (There’s a…
Self-Determination (I)
Monday (19 Feb) was Day 1 of the ICJ’s hearings on “Israel’s illegal occupation of Gaza”, as Al Jazeera describes it. 6 (or so) lawyers representing Palestine, each with 30 mins to do persuasion about one facet of what they painted a pretty convincing picture of as Israel’s* systematic and orchestrated – and quite successful!…
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…
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…