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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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Blazed South African Fishing Vessel Feared Sunken Off Cape Coast, Says SAMSA
15 Oct 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The fiery incident involved the now abandoned 62-year-old MVF Armana while she was located approximately 60 Nautical Miles offshore from Gansbaai.
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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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Autopsies Reveal Bayesian Victims Died Of ‘Dry Drowning,’ Painting A Terrifying Picture Of Their Last Moments
06 Sep 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The autopsies of the first four victims suggest that they had found an air bubble in the cabin in which five of the victims’ bodies were discovered.
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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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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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“Mass Casualty Event” As Baltimore Bridge Collapses After Being Struck By Ship [Video]
26 Mar 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Rescue workers are searching for about 20 people and multiple vehicles believed to have fallen into the Patapsco River.
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The Red Sea’s Houthi Rebels Are Now Threatening Ships Around The Cape Of Good Hope
19 Mar 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
“The Yemeni armed forces warn all Israeli ships heading to or coming from the ports of occupied Palestine not to pass through the Cape of Good Hope, or they will be a legitimate target for our armed forces.”
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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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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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China Unveils Plans For The Biggest Nuclear-Powered Cargo Ship Ever
10 Jan 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Once constructed, it would be among the world’s largest ocean-going container ships, with a load capacity of up to 24,000 conventional containers
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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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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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‘Banksy Of Shipping’- The Anonymous Artist Who Celebrates The World Of Finance, Markets, And Now, Shipping
12 Sep 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Hardo’s latest work on canvas is called Baltic Degens and celebrates all the ‘self-confessed degenerates’ at work in dry freight markets today.
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Meet Pibot, The Humanoid Robot That Can Fly An Aeroplane Just Like A Human Pilot [Video]
16 Aug 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
A team of engineers and researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) is currently developing a humanoid robot that can fly aeroplanes without the need to modify the cockpit.
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Beyond The Ship Graveyard – How Old Ships Are Turned Into Floating Shelters, Hotels And Artificial Reefs
31 Jul 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Every year, retired cruise ships and bulk carriers are sold to ship-breaking yards in Turkey and India where thousands of workers painstakingly cut up the massive vessels and sell their parts for scrap.
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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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Today’s Fact: Lightning Strikes At Sea Follow A Pattern
06 Dec 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Several years of work by researchers at the University of Washington and NASA has revealed that lightning doesn’t always strike indiscriminately.
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Oh No – There’s Talk Of A State-Owned Shipping Company
08 Nov 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Eskom, Transnet, the SA Post Office, PRASA, SAA, Denel – names that haven’t exactly covered themselves in glory. Will we be adding another soon?
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How Many SA-Built Vehicles Were Flogged Overseas Last Month
14 Oct 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
September was a bumper month for local manufacturers selling vehicles abroad. Ford, in particular, will be chuffed.
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Strange Purchases From Amazon’s ‘Deep, Dark Rabbit Hole’
19 Sep 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
When close to 200 million people around the world visit your online store each month, you can get away with selling some nonsensical rubbish willy-nilly.
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Container Homes Are Taking Things To The Next Level [Video]
15 Sep 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The so-called ‘tiny living’ trend continues to grow in popularity. Container homes don’t have to give up all the creature comforts, though.
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Watching These Shipping Disasters Unfold Makes For Painful Viewing [Video]
11 Aug 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The world of shipping is complicated enough without container ships destroying cranes and rear-ending other boats.
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These Guys Turn Shipping Containers Into Swimming Pools
06 Jun 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As the cost of buying property surges, so too do the ways we look to maximise our money and also minimise our impact on the environment.
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Success: The World’s First Autonomous Container Ship Voyage
18 May 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The world’s first commercial autonomous voyage has been completed with success along the coast of Japan.
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Higher Shipping Costs Are Going To Hurt Your Wallet, Too
04 Apr 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Around 80% of the world’s traded goods are transported in shipping containers across the sea.
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The Riches To Rags And Back To Riches Story Of Aristotle Onassis
16 Mar 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis had a fascinating life, and dated some of the most famous women in the world before his death in 1975.
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