Apr 02, 2021
For ships, getting fuel is not as simple as pulling into a gas station like we would do with our cars. So sometimes the fuel comes to the ship. Today we’ll talk about a ship that was being refueled in the Astoria anchorage by a fuel barge that pulled pulled up alongwide the ship, towed by a tug.
Photo credit: Joanne Rideout. Ships in the Astoria Anchorage.
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Apr 2, 2021 | Ship Report Podcasts
For ships, getting fuel is not as simple as pulling into a gas station like we would do with our cars. So sometimes the fuel comes to the ship. Today we’ll talk about a ship that was being refueled in the Astoria anchorage by a fuel barge that pulled pulled up alongwide the ship, towed by a tug.
Photo credit: Joanne Rideout. Ships in the Astoria Anchorage.
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Apr 01, 2021
Today we’ll talk about proposed Biden administration wind energy projects off the U.S. East Coast that would operate under the Jones Act, a U.S. law that requires that ships traveling only between U.S. ports must be U.S. built and flagged, with U.S. citizens (or permaent residents) as crew.
Photo credit: Columbia River Bar Pilots. Big season the Columbia River Bar. Note the height of the buoy compared to the waves: the buoy is about 16 feet tall.
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Apr 1, 2021 | Ship Report Podcasts
Today we’ll talk about proposed Biden administration wind energy projects off the U.S. East Coast that would operate under the Jones Act, a U.S. law that requires that ships traveling only between U.S. ports must be U.S. built and flagged, with U.S. citizens (or permaent residents) as crew.
Photo credit: Columbia River Bar Pilots. Big season the Columbia River Bar. Note the height of the buoy compared to the waves: the buoy is about 16 feet tall.
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Mar 31, 2021
Today I answer a listener question about how our ships on the Columbia compare the the mega containership Ever Given that ran aground in the Suez Canal.
Photo credit: Joanne Rideout. Containership passes Astoria’s waterfront.
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Mar 31, 2021 | Ship Report Podcasts
Today I answer a listener question about how our ships on the Columbia compare the the mega containership Ever Given that ran aground in the Suez Canal.
Photo credit: Joanne Rideout. Containership passes Astoria’s waterfront.
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Mar 30, 2021
The mega containership Ever Given is now free and floating in the Suez Canal. The ship had been aground at both ends and wedged sideways in the canal since last Tuesday. It took a combination of a high spring tide and more than a dozen tugs to pull her free. That’s after crews dug and dredged to help free the ship.
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons: Robert Schwemmer for NOAA’s National Ocean Service
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Mar 30, 2021 | Ship Report Podcasts
The mega containership Ever Given is now free and floating in the Suez Canal. The ship had been aground at both ends and wedged sideways in the canal since last Tuesday. It took a combination of a high spring tide and more than a dozen tugs to pull her free. That’s after crews dug and dredged to help free the ship.
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons: Robert Schwemmer for NOAA’s National Ocean Service
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Mar 29, 2021
The US Navy hospital ship USNS Mercy left Astoria this week after an extended shipyard visit where she underwent maintenance and repairs, a normal procedure for ships that happens about every two years. She’s now ready to resume her humanitarian mission serving the world with medical aid where she’s needed.
Photo credit: Joanne Rideout. The USNS Mercy heads out of Astoria, headed for the Columbia River Bar.
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Mar 29, 2021 | Ship Report Podcasts
The US Navy hospital ship USNS Mercy left Astoria this week after an extended shipyard visit where she underwent maintenance and repairs, a normal procedure for ships that happens about every two years. She’s now ready to resume her humanitarian mission serving the world with medical aid where she’s needed.
Photo credit: Joanne Rideout. The USNS Mercy heads out of Astoria, headed for the Columbia River Bar.
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Mar 26, 2021
As the mega containership Ever Given remains stuck in the Suez Canal, ships are backing up on either end. With no clear end in sight to the grounding, some ships are taking the long way ’round, around the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa.
While waiting is expensive, making the extra long trip around the bottom of Africa is expensive too, and dangerous, especially at this time of year. We’ll talk about what the risks are.
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons – Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (near Cape Town). HDR composite from multiple exposures.
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Mar 26, 2021 | Ship Report Podcasts
As the mega containership Ever Given remains stuck in the Suez Canal, ships are backing up on either end. With no clear end in sight to the grounding, some ships are taking the long way ’round, around the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa.
While waiting is expensive, making the extra long trip around the bottom of Africa is expensive too, and dangerous, especially at this time of year. We’ll talk about what the risks are.
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons – Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (near Cape Town). HDR composite from multiple exposures.
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