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cargo ships
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18 People Rescued From Life Raft After Their Cargo Ship Gets Hit By Rough Seas Off West Coast
10 Jul 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
An 18-member crew had to be rescued from a life raft after their cargo ship was stricken by strong winds and 3.5 meters swells about 60 nautical miles west of Doringbaai.
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The Reason You’re Seeing More Ships On Cape Town’s Coast And Docking At Our Ports
22 Jan 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
If you’ve walked along Sea Point’s promenade in the last while and noticed an atypical amount of cargo ships milling about, you can probably blame the attacks on ships out in the Red Sea.
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The First Robotically-Controlled Cargo Aeroplane Just Made Its Maiden Flight [Video]
08 Dec 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
A US-based robotics company just carried out the successful flight of a Cessna 208B Caravan cargo aeroplane with no crew on board.
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The World’s Biggest Container Ship Is A 400-Metre Monster [Video]
31 Oct 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
The MSC Irina is the biggest cargo ship in the world when it comes to space, and at full capacity, the sweetly named ship can carry more than 24,300 standard 20-foot shipping containers stacked up to 26 deep.
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Petrolheads, Look Away: R6 Billion Worth Of Porsches, Audis, Bentleys, And Lamborghinis Ablaze At Sea
22 Feb 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The Felicity Ace ship was supposed to transport the estimated 4 000 vehicles from Volkswagen’s factory in Germany to the US.
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Somebody’s Getting Fired For These Shipping Disasters [Video]
17 Jan 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In the world of shipping, there’s usually no such thing as an inexpensive mistake. If you mess up you tend to mess up on a monumental scale and there’s no hiding.
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Crewless Cargo Ships Are A Thing Now
02 Sep 2021 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Yara Birkeland isn’t your average cargo ship, with the potential for its movements to be powered entirely by three onshore data control centres.
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Wooden Cargo Ship Has Some Serious Noah’s Ark Vibes
03 Dec 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
The eco-friendly Ceiba is a little like Noah’s Ark, but for shipping containers, and it’s hoped that the vessel will cross oceans without the use of any fossil fuels.
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New ‘Carbon-Capture’ Shipping Tech Could Change The Game
03 Sep 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
Container ships are one of the safest ways to move cargo, so it’s great that the industry is looking at greener ways to get the job done.
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Simple Ingredient Could Change The Future Of Ocean-Going Ships
19 Feb 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
The shipping industry is finding creative ways to swap out the old ways of doing things for new, greener options.
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Sheep, Cars, And Cranes – Three Shipping Disasters From 2019 [Videos]
06 Dec 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
The old saying “the bigger they are, the harder they fall” rings true when it comes to disasters involving massive cargo ships.
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Horrified Onlookers Watch Cargo Ship Smash Into Famous Seaside House [Videos]
10 Apr 2018 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A good cargo ship passes by unnoticed to the general public, and a terrible cargo ship ploughs into a historic building and causes irreparable damage.
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