May 20, 2024
The latest news about container service at the Port of Portland is that Oregon’s governor has a plan to shore up the port for now, with $40 million in support. The caveat: the port must create a sustainability plan for its container service.
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May 20, 2024 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
The latest news about container service at the Port of Portland is that Oregon’s governor has a plan to shore up the port for now, with $40 million in support. The caveat: the port must create a sustainability plan for its container service.
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May 17, 2024
Today we’ll look at today’s schedule, which includes another military replenishment oiler like the one we saw yesterday (a ship that can refuel other ships at sea).
And also a footnote about the beach this week… where I personally tried wading briefly in the ocean to see how cold it really is. The answer: it’s really COLD, yes, capital letters cold. Cold enough to make your feet ache.
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May 17, 2024 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today we’ll look at today’s schedule, which includes another military replenishment oiler like the one we saw yesterday (a ship that can refuel other ships at sea).
And also a footnote about the beach this week… where I personally tried wading briefly in the ocean to see how cold it really is. The answer: it’s really COLD, yes, capital letters cold. Cold enough to make your feet ache.
Show transcript here: http://shipreport.nfshost.com/audio/SRTranscript051724.pdf
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May 16, 2024
Today, a brief dive into vessel design and some of the factors that can affect why boats and ships look the way they do. Today we’ll look at the plumb bow feature you may see on ships and on some recreational boats and why a designer might choose to design a vessel this way.
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May 16, 2024 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today, a brief dive into vessel design and some of the factors that can affect why boats and ships look the way they do. Today we’ll look at the plumb bow feature you may see on ships and on some recreational boats and why a designer might choose to design a vessel this way.
Show transcript here: http://shipreport.nfshost.com/audio/SRTranscript051624.pdf
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May 15, 2024
We do a lot to warn people about water safety, but perhaps not enough to change their minds about how they see it, as a concept in their lives.
For everyone’s benefit: victims, emergency first responders and Good Samaritans, it’s time to make water safety “cool.”
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May 15, 2024 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
We do a lot to warn people about water safety, but perhaps not enough to change their minds about how they see it, as a concept in their lives.
For everyone’s benefit: victims, emergency first responders and Good Samaritans, it’s time to make water safety “cool.”
Show transcript here: http://shipreport.nfshost.com/audio/SRTranscript051524.pdf
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May 14, 2024
Today we’ll take another look at a specialized maritime term, one that may seem odd to folks not involved in the maritime industry. This word, llightering, has to do with the process of moving cargo, and sometimes fuel, usually from a larger vessel to a smaller one, for the purposes of making the other vessel lighter, and more able to maneuver, especially when it comes to water depth at the dock.
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May 14, 2024 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today we’ll take another look at a specialized maritime term, one that may seem odd to folks not involved in the maritime industry. This word, llightering, has to do with the process of moving cargo, and sometimes fuel, usually from a larger vessel to a smaller one, for the purposes of making the other vessel lighter, and more able to maneuver, especially when it comes to water depth at the dock.
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May 13, 2024
Folks familiar with the maritime industry use this word a lot: “bunker” or “bunkering” or even “bunkers.”
It’s not a word whose meaning you can easily figure out just by hearing it, but it refers to the fuel ships use and the process of filling up a ship’s tanks so she has fuel to travel at sea.
Today we’ll talk about bunker and bunkering, and exactly what those terms mean. And how this important maritime function came to be named in such an apparently nonintuitive way.
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May 13, 2024 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Folks familiar with the maritime industry use this word a lot: “bunker” or “bunkering” or even “bunkers.”
It’s not a word whose meaning you can easily figure out just by hearing it, but it refers to the fuel ships use and the process of filling up a ship’s tanks so she has fuel to travel at sea.
Today we’ll talk about bunker and bunkering, and exactly what those terms mean. And how this important maritime function came to be named in such an apparently nonintuitive way.
Show transcript available here: http://shipreport.nfshost.com/audio/SRTranscript051324.pdf
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