The Most Recent Ship Report Podcast:

The busy upriver Columbia

We see a lot of ships go by on the lower river near Astoria, but the river upstream past Longview is often busier, with a variety of vessel traffic all doing local work: tugs and bargesĀ  hauling cargo, ship handling tugs, and ships being moved from anchorages to nearby berths.

Archive Podcasts:

Who’s on the ships we see passing by?

Today, a look at the lives of the people who live and work on the ships that travel the world and bring us all our “stuff.”

We’ll look at the latest data from the Seafarers Happiness Index, which assesses how life is going at asea for sailors. and a look at what countries sailors are mostly like to hail from.

Shipbreaking: a necessary and problematic industry

Today, in answer to a listener question, a look at a troubling but necessary industry: shipbreaking.

Where do old ships go to die? The answer mostly is to a shipbreaking yard somewhere in South Asia, to countries like India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

We’ll talk about the hazards of shipbreaking as is it conducted in most cases. We’ll also look at places where environmentally responsible shpibreaking is happening.

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