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Sails Are Making A Triumphant Comeback As Shipping Races To Harness Clean Propulsion
10 Dec 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
“Shipping originally was completely wind-powered. We know that it works, right?”
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Cape Town Is Not Just Any Port In A Storm
30 Oct 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The historic Victoria and Alfred Basins were created after a vicious storm in 1858, which saw 30 ships blown ashore and wrecked, with huge loss of life.
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Shippers And Forwarders Are Bracing For An ‘E-Commerce Tsunami’
12 Sep 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Despite ongoing concerns about import charges involving discount retail sites, the expected Black Friday peak signals “an unstoppable tsunami for freight forwarders”.
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Private Rail Operators To Be Given Access To Network As Soon As October
16 Aug 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The finalisation of the Network Statement by Transnet later this month will also open the door to a more competitive rail system, with an independent infrastructure manager charged with refereeing access to the country’s rail network.
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New Cylinder Sails Promise To Cut 90% Of Fuel Costs For Cargo Ships [Video]
31 Jul 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Sails are undergoing a renaissance.
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The Last BelugaXL Wide-Body Airliner Has Entered Service [Video]
13 Jun 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Few aeroplanes can beat the sight of the Airbus Beluga fleet.
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South African Ports Are Showing Improved Shipping Volumes
20 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Transnet announced on Friday that its container volumes had risen 10%, while bulk volumes and break-bulk volumes had increased by 5% and 17%, respectively.
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Cool Video Clip Shows The Engineering Genius Of The Panama Canal
23 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The Panama Canal is perhaps one of the biggest engineering projects ever constructed and one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.
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Boeing Designed A Weird Plane That Could ‘Suck Up’ Shipping Containers [Video]
03 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Although there are some truly massive cargo planes crisscrossing the sky above us today, there’s always the need to go bigger.
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South Africa Is Getting A ‘Super Transport Regulator’ That Will Set Road, Airport, Port And Rail Pricing
15 Feb 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
South Africa’s transport industry is going to undergo a ‘radical’ transformation with the introduction of a Transport Economic Regulator (TER).
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Transnet Coal Trains In Devastating Collision Following ‘Communications Error’
16 Jan 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The crash is the result of a communications failure as Transnet runs a manual train management system and cannot remotely track trains in real-time.
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The Concrete Ships Of WWI Were Just Built Different
16 Nov 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
One of the last construction materials we might associate with cargo ships is concrete.
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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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This Bulgarian Startup Wants To Replace Courier Vans With Drones [Video]
04 Oct 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
The flight, spanning 25 kilometres and lasting a little more than 10 minutes, is the first step in their hopes of commercial flights in Europe.
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Are Autonomous Cargo Ships The Future Of Maritime Shipping?
03 Aug 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Trade across the oceans is one of the oldest forms of commerce, so it’s only natural that it would be in need of an AI overhaul. With this in mind, Rolls Royce recently released its view of what autonomous shipping would look like, calling it “the next step.”
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Why Not Travel Via Cargo Ship On Your Next Holiday? [Video]
21 Apr 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
With a little sense of adventure, however, there is a lesser-known way to visit your family in Spain, and it’s a whole lot cheaper too.
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