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Japanese Mega Container Ship Begins Operations

18 August 2023

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The largest container ships ever built in Japan has started operating, amid intensifying global competition to lower shipping costs, says an article published on Www3.nhk.

Ehime Prefecture set sail

Major shipbuilders in Japan, including Imabari Shipbuilding and Japan Marine United, have been constructing six container vessels that are among the largest in the world. They are about 400 meters long and more than 70 meters high, the equivalent of a 25-story building.

A ship that...

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Logistics Industry Embraces Technology To Satisfy Growing Demand

10 April 2023

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Logistics turns to tech to meet new demand, states a Financial Times news source.

Asia’s logistics sector

Asia’s logistics sector is booming. And it is technology — whether used to map global shipping routes or plan customer deliveries — that is helping propel growth at companies large and small. From shipping groups to warehouse owners, logistics businesses have often been slow to embrace digitalisation. But global supply chain disruptions early in the pandemic...

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Logistics Industry Embraces Technology To Satisfy Growing Demand

10 April 2023

Credit: Containership_Unsplash

Logistics turns to tech to meet new demand, states a Financial Times news source.

Asia’s logistics sector

https://mfame.guru/logistics-industry-embraces-technology-to-satisfy-growing-demand/

Why Oil Tankers Are The New Maritime Darlings?

17 February 2023

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Why oil tankers are the new darlings of maritime shipping, intrigues an El Pais news source.

Hundreds of ships moored in the harbor

“The war has benefited us,” says Peter Kolding, vice president of Hafnia, the Danish oil tanker company. It sounds blunt from the top floor of a Singapore hotel surrounded by skyscrapers, where the expansive view from the window reveals hundreds of ships moored in the harbor below. Kolding’s statement is as uncomfortable as it is...

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Daily Infographic: How big are the world’s largest ocean container ships?

25 January 2023

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How big are the world’s largest ocean container ships?

14 January 2023

Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine in June launched the largest container ship ever built, the aptly named Ever Alot.

The massive ship has a capacity of 24,004 twenty-foot equivalent units, just a little more than its slightly older sibling, the Ever Ace, launched in July 2021 and the former world record holder at 23,992 TEUs.

The Ever Alot is more than 1,300 feet long and 203 feet wide. If you were to stack the Ever Alot vertically, it would be taller than the Empire State Building in New York City.

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South Korea Raises Typhoon-alert; New Pacific System May Impact Mexico and U.S

6 September 2022

After an eerily quiet August, the tropics from Atlantic to Pacific are now looking a lot more like one would expect for early September.
There’s a tropical storm and a hurricane in the Atlantic, a strong typhoon headed toward a high-impact encounter with South Korea, and a new depression in the East Pacific.
Its likely to bring heavy rain to the Baja Peninsula and perhaps even some much-needed showers to parts of Southern California.

A recent news article published in the Yale Climate...

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FreightWaves Classics: Malcom McDowell’s containership begins first journey in 1956

26 April 2022

Malcom McLean in the foreground with a Sea-Land container behind him. (Photo: Maersk)

On this date in 1956 the first commercially successful container ship began its maiden voyage on a route from New Jersey to Texas. The Ideal X and its 58 intermodal containers began a revolution in shipping that is still echoing around the world today.

Background

A McLean Trucking Company patch. (Photo: NC Historic Sites)

Malcom P. McLean recognized the potential to haul motor freight when he was just a teenager. The native of Maxton, North Carolina, purchased his first truck in 1934 and began...

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