Apr 19, 2024
Today I’ll revisit a concept I talked about on Monday’s show.. General Average – an ancient maritime principle that governs how losses in a ship disaster are shared between stakeholders. I was talking about the containership Dali and what sort of liability cargo owners on that ship could face. Turns out quite a bit. Disasters are a reason why most companies shipping cargo have insurance against this sort of event. If they don’t, it could be devastating.
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Apr 19, 2024 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today I’ll revisit a concept I talked about on Monday’s show.. General Average – an ancient maritime principle that governs how losses in a ship disaster are shared between stakeholders. I was talking about the containership Dali and what sort of liability cargo owners on that ship could face. Turns out quite a bit. Disasters are a reason why most companies shipping cargo have insurance against this sort of event. If they don’t, it could be devastating.
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Apr 18, 2024
Continuing our discussion about changes in ports and cargo service on the Columbia, today we’ll talk about the decision by the Port of Woodland to buiild a marine terminal and being serving cargo ships for the first time. The port has a partnership with a cement company that will help make it happen.
We’ll talk about what an official port district is, compared to a private port, and also about the ebb and flow of cargo services on the river.
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Apr 18, 2024 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Continuing our discussion about changes in ports and cargo service on the Columbia, today we’ll talk about the decision by the Port of Woodland to buiild a marine terminal and being serving cargo ships for the first time. The port has a partnership with a cement company that will help make it happen.
We’ll talk about what an official port district is, compared to a private port, and also about the ebb and flow of cargo services on the river.
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Apr 17, 2024
Today we’ll talk about a listener comment regarding the Port of Portland’s decision to suspend container service this fall out of its Terminal 6 facilities. A person suggested that containers be shipped out of Astoria instead. We’ll talk about why that is highly unlikely. Mostly, it’s a matter of highly expensive infrastructure. Equipment costs are huge, and such a change would profoundly alter the character of Astoria.
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Apr 17, 2024 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today we’ll talk about a listener comment regarding the Port of Portland’s decision to suspend container service this fall out of its Terminal 6 facilities. A person suggested that containers be shipped out of Astoria instead. We’ll talk about why that is highly unlikely. Mostly, it’s a matter of highly expensive infrastructure. Equipment costs are huge, and such a change would profoundly alter the character of Astoria.
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Apr 16, 2024
The big maritime news locally this week is the announcement by the Port of Portland that they will end container ship service to the Port’s Terminal 6 as of October 1. The decision will mean the Columbia River will no longer have container service, since Portland is the only port with the infrastructure and equipment to handle containers. Carships and bulk carriers will continue to call on the Port.
Portland has gained and lost container service over the past two decades. The most recent round of container service began during the pandemic, when the Port of Portland served as a overflow port for overcrowded ports on the West Coast. The service has continued with several container ships per week transiting the river.
According to this week’s news reports, that service will cease at the end of September. The hope is that this will only be temporary.
Photo: Port of Portland’s Terminal 6 container cranes. Credit: M.O. Stevens, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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Apr 16, 2024 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
The big maritime news locally this week is the announcement by the Port of Portland that they will end container ship service to the Port’s Terminal 6 as of October 1. The decision will mean the Columbia River will no longer have container service, since Portland is the only port with the infrastructure and equipment to handle containers. Carships and bulk carriers will continue to call on the Port.
Portland has gained and lost container service over the past two decades. The most recent round of container service began during the pandemic, when the Port of Portland served as a overflow port for overcrowded ports on the West Coast. The service has continued with several container ships per week transiting the river.
According to this week’s news reports, that service will cease at the end of September. The hope is that this will only be temporary.
Photo: Port of Portland’s Terminal 6 container cranes. Credit: M.O. Stevens, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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Apr 15, 2024
There’s an ancient tenet of maritime law that is cropping up in reports about the catastrophe in Baltimore harbor with the containership Dali. It’s called “general average,” and it has to do with who pays when a ship runs into expensive trouble during a voyage.
This law can force those customers whose cargo is on the ship to help pay for the cost of the disaster. Mostly it ends up being a complex negotiation between many insurance companies, but it could be an expensive caveat for small businesses who may not have insured their cargo sufficiently.
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Apr 15, 2024 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
There’s an ancient tenet of maritime law that is cropping up in reports about the catastrophe in Baltimore harbor with the containership Dali. It’s called “general average,” and it has to do with who pays when a ship runs into expensive trouble during a voyage.
This law can force those customers whose cargo is on the ship to help pay for the cost of the disaster. Mostly it ends up being a complex negotiation between many insurance companies, but it could be an expensive caveat for small businesses who may not have insured their cargo sufficiently.
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Apr 12, 2024
This week we’ve heard a series from the Ship Report archives on USCG rescue swimmers. Today ends that series.
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Apr 12, 2024 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
This week we’ve heard a series from the Ship Report archives on USCG rescue swimmers. Today ends that series.
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