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[Pastie Bloater]

Info about the Zhenhua 23 collision and crane collapse:

https://www.maritimejournal.com/news101/industry-n...
http://www.cargolaw.com/2008nightmare_zen_hua.html...

For info the new cranes weigh about 2000 tons
Old ones 1000 tons

Edited by Pastie Bloater on Monday 24th May 07:40

[DodgyGeezer]

[Riff Raff]

DodgyGeezer said:

There's a marketing opportunity there... MOL, Flexible shipping solutions.

[RizzoTheRat]

Riff Raff said:

DodgyGeezer said:

There's a marketing opportunity there... MOL, Flexible shipping solutions.

Use wave power to generate electricity to propel the ship. I think we're on to something here.


ETA, just googled that one, 4293 containers lost makes it the biggest cargo loss ever, and cost the insurers between $300m and $400m.
Fortunately no casualties, unlike the similar incident with the Arvin this year where 3 died.

Edited by RizzoTheRat on Tuesday 1st June 13:27

[PushedDover]

Shoiiiiiiiiiiitteeee :




https://gcaptain.com/watch-containership-takes-out...

[MartG]

PushedDover said:

Shoiiiiiiiiiiitteeee :




https://gcaptain.com/watch-containership-takes-out...

'kinell !

I'm guessing it would have been under the control of a port pilot, so the port authority will be liable ?

[FourWheelDrift]

MartG said:

'kinell !

I'm guessing it would have been under the control of a port pilot, so the port authority will be liable ?

It's not Egypt so it will be port authority to blame.

[RizzoTheRat]

MartG said:

'kinell !

I'm guessing it would have been under the control of a port pilot, so the port authority will be liable ?

In the same way the Ever Given was under the control of a Suez pilot?

[PushedDover]

Better than the earlier post with them idle

the world’s two largest crane vessels - Sleipnir and Thialf - working an offshore project together on the North Sea!

[MartG]

[MartG]

USS North Dakota (BB-29) in the Panama Canal, circa 1918.

[RizzoTheRat]

PushedDover said:

the world’s two largest crane vessels - Sleipnir and Thialf - working an offshore project together on the North Sea!

I noticed this (Gulliver) just up the coast from here yesterday, along with another similar one (Rambitz)

They look big enough to me, but can apparently lift 4000 tonnes compared to Sleipnir's 10,000

(not my photo)

Dunno if they're just parked here or working, the 2 of them together lifted the Helge Ingstad a couple of years back

Edited by RizzoTheRat on Wednesday 9th June 08:12

[DeltonaS]

https://www.ad.nl/rotterdam/werkschip-op-poten-tor...

Edited by DeltonaS on Tuesday 8th June 21:35

[PushedDover]

Ex O&G Seafox 5

Now Windy Blue Tern

[DeltonaS]

PushedDover said:

Better than the earlier post with them idle

the world’s two largest crane vessels - Sleipnir and Thialf - working an offshore project together on the North Sea!

Yes, different times:

[PushedDover]

Maps not a ship allowed?



"China exported 2,189 ships in the first five months of this year"

[Condi]

PushedDover said:

Maps not a ship allowed?

"China exported 2,189 ships in the first five months of this year"

Far cry from when the Clyde used to produce 60% of the world's ships and there were other major yards on the NE coast of England and over on the West towards Barrow etc.

[DeltonaS]

PushedDover said:

Maps not a ship allowed?

"China exported 2,189 ships in the first five months of this year"

And that's without South Korea:

South Korean shipbuilders won orders of 8.19 million compensated gross tonnage or CGT for 187 vessels in 2020, accounting for 43 percent of the global shipbuilding contracts of 19.24 million CGT. It means Korea held the largest share of the market last year. Korea’s overwhelming lead in high value-added vessels, in particular, enabled the country to outrun its rivals such as China and Japan. Last year, China was close behind Korea, with a market share of 41 percent

https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/korea-leading...

Super yacht building is dominated by The Netherlands, Germany and Italy.

Which brings me to:

Condi said:

Far cry from when the Clyde used to produce 60% of the world's ships and there were other major yards on the NE coast of England and over on the West towards Barrow etc.

Not when it comes to Boris; "The Prime Minister has an exciting vision for shipbuilding in this country and is committed to making the UK a shipbuilding superpower."
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johns...

But Boris has more plans, he wants to make the UK:

A Naval Superpower
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1362427/boris-jo...
A Science and Tech Superpower
https://theprint.in/world/boris-johnson-vows-to-tu...
A Cyber Superpower
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14332006/boris-johns...
A Soft Power Superpower
https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/boris-johnsons-glob...

[PushedDover]

One may sit in some of those meetings with the Shipbuilding minister Czar and alike......

[Ayahuasca]

MartG said:

USS North Dakota (BB-29) in the Panama Canal, circa 1918.

Gives an idea of the amount of rock that had to be blasted to dig the big ditch.