Oct 20, 2021
It’s a growing problem in a troubled world shipping market: some ships are being abandoned by their owners, with crews and cargo still on board, often at anchor in some foreign port far from the crews’ homes. Without pay, food or fuel, things become desperate for sailors who took jobs on board in good faith and with families to feed. Today we’ll look at abandoned ships.
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Oct 20, 2021 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
It’s a growing problem in a troubled world shipping market: some ships are being abandoned by their owners, with crews and cargo still on board, often at anchor in some foreign port far from the crews’ homes. Without pay, food or fuel, things become desperate for sailors who took jobs on board in good faith and with families to feed. Today we’ll look at abandoned ships.
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Oct 01, 2021
In the world today, we get our stuff through a global intermodal supply chain. That includes ports, containerships and on the ground, trucks and trains. As more disruptions arise at ports near and far, many of them concerning containerships, now delays in the trucking and train realms also have become an issue.
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Oct 1, 2021 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
In the world today, we get our stuff through a global intermodal supply chain. That includes ports, containerships and on the ground, trucks and trains. As more disruptions arise at ports near and far, many of them concerning containerships, now delays in the trucking and train realms also have become an issue.
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Sep 30, 2021
Today, an unusual story from China that could further hamper the flow of manufacturing and shipping there, with impacts on the rest of the world. China, in a effort to enforce emissions standards to reduce pollution, has started cutting electrical power to businesses that have not met their emissions criteria. Among the most affected areas are provinces where China’s busiest container ports are located.
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Sep 30, 2021 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today, an unusual story from China that could further hamper the flow of manufacturing and shipping there, with impacts on the rest of the world. China, in a effort to enforce emissions standards to reduce pollution, has started cutting electrical power to businesses that have not met their emissions criteria. Among the most affected areas are provinces where China’s busiest container ports are located.
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Sep 28, 2021
Costco has joined the list of big box retailers who are chartering their own containerships to avoid intentory shortages during the holiday season. That’s good news for shoppers there. Small businesses that have to rely on the regular supply chain may have more difficulties getitng inventory. Overall, inflation and elevated shipping costs could cause prices to rise.
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Sep 28, 2021 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Costco has joined the list of big box retailers who are chartering their own containerships to avoid intentory shortages during the holiday season. That’s good news for shoppers there. Small businesses that have to rely on the regular supply chain may have more difficulties getitng inventory. Overall, inflation and elevated shipping costs could cause prices to rise.
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Sep 27, 2021
Some traditional native lands were returned to tribal jurisdiction this month, after the Confederated Tribes of the Grande Ronde purchased the Willamette Falls. The change means good things for all: a coalition of organizations and regional tribes will demolish an abandoned paper mill on the site and restore the area, allowing public access to one of Oregon’s natural wonders, something not possible before.
Photo: Willamette Falls. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
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Sep 27, 2021 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Some traditional native lands were returned to tribal jurisdiction this month, after the Confederated Tribes of the Grande Ronde purchased the Willamette Falls. The change means good things for all: a coalition of organizations and regional tribes will demolish an abandoned paper mill on the site and restore the area, allowing public access to one of Oregon’s natural wonders, something not possible before.
Photo: Willamette Falls. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
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Sep 24, 2021
A look at the backlog of containerships anchored in Puget Sound right now, and a look at how Puget Sound and the Columbia River compare as waterways: they’re quite different in interesting ways and surprisingly similar in others.
[Photo Credit: The MV Aurora Explorer cruises toward the Seymour Narrows in Discovery Passage between Vancouver and Quadra islands north of Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, Photographer David Stanley, https://flickr.com/photos/79721788@N00/50260397688]
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Sep 24, 2021 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
A look at the backlog of containerships anchored in Puget Sound right now, and a look at how Puget Sound and the Columbia River compare as waterways: they’re quite different in interesting ways and surprisingly similar in others.
[Photo Credit: The MV Aurora Explorer cruises toward the Seymour Narrows in Discovery Passage between Vancouver and Quadra islands north of Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, Photographer David Stanley, https://flickr.com/photos/79721788@N00/50260397688]
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