Mar 15, 2021
On ships worldwide, where mariners hail from many different countries, there is a standard “language” of shortcuts that are universally used to help sailors understand radio communications between people who may not share a common language. It’s called Seaspeak, and it’s based on English, the international language of aviation. Using these agreed-upon terms can avoid daingerous misunderstandings.
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Mar 15, 2021 | Ship Report Podcasts
On ships worldwide, where mariners hail from many different countries, there is a standard “language” of shortcuts that are universally used to help sailors understand radio communications between people who may not share a common language. It’s called Seaspeak, and it’s based on English, the international language of aviation. Using these agreed-upon terms can avoid daingerous misunderstandings.
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Mar 12, 2021
Today we note the 10 year anniversary this week of the earthquake in Japan in 2011 that caused a devastating tsunami there and sent small tsunami waves across the ocean as far as the Pacific Northwest. A decade later, Japan still struggles with a damaged nuclear reactor and plans to discharge still more radioactive water itno the sea.
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Mar 12, 2021 | Ship Report Podcasts
Today we note the 10 year anniversary this week of the earthquake in Japan in 2011 that caused a devastating tsunami there and sent small tsunami waves across the ocean as far as the Pacific Northwest. A decade later, Japan still struggles with a damaged nuclear reactor and plans to discharge still more radioactive water itno the sea.
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Mar 11, 2021
Today we talk about international efforts to reduce ship pollution. If the world’s shipping fleet were a country, they would be the 6th largest polluting nation in the world. We’ll talk about efforts to get that under control.
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Mar 11, 2021 | Ship Report Podcasts
Today we talk about international efforts to reduce ship pollution. If the world’s shipping fleet were a country, they would be the 6th largest polluting nation in the world. We’ll talk about efforts to get that under control.
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Mar 10, 2021
Today we take a look at how the world imbalance in container shipping is affecting Pacific Northwest ports. Some ports have lots of empty containers while others don’t have enough to hold the cargo they need to ship.
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Mar 10, 2021 | Ship Report Podcasts
Today we take a look at how the world imbalance in container shipping is affecting Pacific Northwest ports. Some ports have lots of empty containers while others don’t have enough to hold the cargo they need to ship.
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Mar 09, 2021
The pandemic has thrown international container shipping into a dilemma.
Changing consumer needs during the past year have thrown traditional product supply and demand patterns out the window. The result is that some ports have scads of empty containers sitting around, while other ports have cargo waiting to be shipped and no containers at hand.
Such a seeminly simple problem is turning out to have global consequences. The result has been shipping chaos.
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Mar 9, 2021 | Ship Report Podcasts
The pandemic has thrown international container shipping into a dilemma.
Changing consumer needs during the past year have thrown traditional product supply and demand patterns out the window. The result is that some ports have scads of empty containers sitting around, while other ports have cargo waiting to be shipped and no containers at hand.
Such a seeminly simple problem is turning out to have global consequences. The result has been shipping chaos.
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Mar 08, 2021
An amazing rescue after 16 hours lost at sea: a ship’s engineer fell overboard in the middle of the night. He survived until his shipmates retraced their path and found him – by clinging to a piece of ocean trash floating in the sea.
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Mar 8, 2021 | Ship Report Podcasts
An amazing rescue after 16 hours lost at sea: a ship’s engineer fell overboard in the middle of the night. He survived until his shipmates retraced their path and found him – by clinging to a piece of ocean trash floating in the sea.
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