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Maersk brings world's largest ship into service
Telegraph ^
| 1:15PM BST 05 Jul 2013
| Alan Tovey
Posted on 07/05/2013 9:53:09 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan
There’s a sort of pleasant quaintness to old movies showing tough looking dock workers loading cargo with big nets and muscle power.
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07/05/2013 11:38:02 AM PDT
by
count-your-change
(you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
To: JoeFromSidney
Remember, this is dry bulk carriers, not container ships.Point taken. Is there an index for them?
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posted on
07/05/2013 11:51:49 AM PDT
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Oatka
(This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
To: rarestia
200 feet taller than the World Trade Center was tall.
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posted on
07/05/2013 11:53:51 AM PDT
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Husker24
To: Husker24
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posted on
07/05/2013 11:57:01 AM PDT
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Husker24
To: Pan_Yan
Didn't work so well, once before:
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posted on
07/05/2013 11:57:31 AM PDT
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Carriage Hill
(Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
To: Pan_Yan
...capable of holding more than 18,000 standard 20ft shipping containers. That is a lot of immigrants.
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07/05/2013 12:01:23 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Fight the culture of nothing.)
To: Oatka
The baltic dry index measures the price of moving raw materials (grain, iron ore, gravel, etc), not of moving containers. The largest recent impact is from China’s curtailing its imports of iron ore, and of excess capacity coming online. Ships moving these raw materials are not compatible with container shipping.
To: carriage_hill
There must be some serious math involved in figuring out the container configuration to make the weight right forward to aft, port to starboard and top to bottom.
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07/05/2013 1:10:41 PM PDT
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Pan_Yan
(I believe in God. All else is dubious.)
To: Pan_Yan
I sure couldn’t do that math. Heh.
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07/05/2013 1:21:26 PM PDT
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Carriage Hill
(Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
To: Islander828
Point taken. Is there an index for container shipping?
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07/05/2013 3:59:14 PM PDT
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Oatka
(This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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