In addition to the usual and considerable hazards of being a mariner, winter adds another dimension of risk, with difficult weather bringing its own hazards and challenges to the mix.
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In addition to the usual and considerable hazards of being a mariner, winter adds another dimension of risk, with difficult weather bringing its own hazards and challenges to the mix.
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A look at difficult winter weather in the ocean offshore, a place where most land dwellers will never go.
Photo: Big waves on the Columbia River Bar. Image courtesy Columbia River Bar Pilots.
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A look at difficult winter weather in the ocean offshore, a place where most land dwellers will never go.
Photo: Big waves on the Columbia River Bar. Image courtesy Columbia River Bar Pilots.
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An update on the tangled web that is international container shipping in the pandemic.
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An update on the tangled web that is international container shipping in the pandemic.
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The U.S. Coast Guard was busy the past few days, rescuing crabbers in trouble off the Oregon coast, as the Dungeness crab season gets off to a start.
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The U.S. Coast Guard was busy the past few days, rescuing crabbers in trouble off the Oregon coast, as the Dungeness crab season gets off to a start.
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As container shipping continues to be snarled in ports worldwide, customers are switching gears and moving cargo the old-fashioned way: on general cargo ships in huge bags called “supersacks.”
Photo: Supersacks on the ground awaiting transport. Credit: U.S. Department of Energy from United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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As container shipping continues to be snarled in ports worldwide, customers are switching gears and moving cargo the old-fashioned way: on general cargo ships in huge bags called “supersacks.”
Photo: Supersacks on the ground awaiting transport. Credit: U.S. Department of Energy from United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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A look at the current state of the seemingly endless global cargo debacle, that has left containerships idling in ports worldwide.
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A look at the current state of the seemingly endless global cargo debacle, that has left containerships idling in ports worldwide.
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