https://twitter.com/MarineTraffic/status/1374650543344390147... It's pretty insane that I can track what ship is where on the other side of the planet in real time.
too bad airplane don't have the same ability, otherwise, we'd know where MH370 went
Suez canal blocked by a massive ship
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow. The magnitude of global trade is insane!
As is the environmental harm
Super-ships emit ~5g_Co2/Ton/km on average[1], while railway is 2-35g, air transport is 700-3000g and truck transport is 100-2000g.
Surprisingly, the bigger the boat the more effective. We tend to have a bias against larger machines, but often they can be the cleanest in proportion.
[1] https://www.ademe.fr/sites/default/files/assets/documents/86...
Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship
#213How does a huge ship like that get stuck in that orientation wrt. the canal? These things don't really turn on a dime I presume. Edit: Go to https://www.myshiptracking.com/ and use the Playback button with timestamp 23/03/2021 06:15:00 to see the ship drifting left and right.
From one of the twitter threads on the topic: "power blackout". So likely the ship was uncontrollable and drifted into the bank. There seems to be evidence that there its bulbous bow is embedded in the bank.
Aha, that explains. The sheer inertia of a ship like this, almost unimaginable. That'll jam that bow in there good.
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There were some interesting profiles following the NotPetya attack on Maersk in 2017 where Maersk claimed to have 1,200 - 1,500 applications, 49,000 laptops, 6,200 servers. Maersk are entering into block-chain "distributed ledger technology" with IBM and similar modern solutions. But one article put $300 of every $2,000 of shipping costs for administration and paperwork[0]. I think you're right, there is a massive ad…
> 300 of every $2,000 of shipping costs for administration and paperwork Damn that's a lot. I understand this is a capital intensive industry so I guess it's hard/impossible to get in now but it seems like if someone started a competitor from scratch and had great software as the foundation of their company, they'd make a killing
"great software"
"logistics"
"from scratch"
it does not compile, I guess it's just like those ERP Systems - you don't need shitton of domain knowledge, because you need fuckton of domain knowledge and during development you'll learn even more and have to refactor a lot of stuff frequently for edge cases.
Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship
#215What does this blockage of the canal mean for investments in oil cargo ships? Will the rates for oil cargo ships increase because they will sail around Africa instead?
Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship
#216How does a huge ship like that get stuck in that orientation wrt. the canal? These things don't really turn on a dime I presume. Edit: Go to https://www.myshiptracking.com/ and use the Playback button with timestamp 23/03/2021 06:15:00 to see the ship drifting left and right.
From one of the twitter threads on the topic: "power blackout". So likely the ship was uncontrollable and drifted into the bank. There seems to be evidence that there its bulbous bow is embedded in the bank.
As I shared in another comment according to NHK News in Japan, poor visibility due to sand storm was the cause. It is a Japanese ship operated by Taiwanese company.
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#217The BBC article [0] is saying that apparently an older parallel channel has been reopened. Does anyone know where this might be? I can't find a parallel channel that would bypass this blockage...
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#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
Uhhh it's in Wikipedia's "largest container ships" list! [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_container_ship...
In 2016, Prokopowicz and Berg-Andreassen defined a container ship with a capacity of 10,000 to 20,000 TEU as a Very Large Container Ship (VLCS), while that with a capacity greater than 20,000 TEU as an Ultra Large Container Ship (ULCS) They are gonna run out of larger adjectives pretty soon.
they just need to take a lead from astronomers
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telesco...
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#219https://twitter.com/MarineTraffic/status/1374650543344390147... It's pretty insane that I can track what ship is where on the other side of the planet in real time.
too bad airplane don't have the same ability, otherwise, we'd know where MH370 went
They do: https://www.flightradar24.com/
They even found debris from it in the places they expected: https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/searching-for-mh370-two-y...
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How does one end up traveling on a container ship? Is that something you can pay to do?
Most of the ships have unused cabins, and some shipping companies allow civilians to book them as a sort of quirky cruise experience. There is quite a lot of paperwork involved, and you need to book fairly far in advance, but it's totally doable if you have the cash and the time. When I went it cost around us$100 per night. Going from Europe to Asia takes 3-4 weeks, I think going around the world (both Suez and Panam…
For people who are on no-flight lists for whatever reason, this is one of the very few ways to travel across the ocean too.