Will agree there are many more Ships these days , but that is just normal because of Human Growth and the likes, but one thing for sure is that there will never be the same feeling of the days we went to Sea !
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Will agree there are many more Ships these days , but that is just normal because of Human Growth and the likes, but one thing for sure is that there will never be the same feeling of the days we went to Sea !
Cheers
Yes Ivan, the ships are bigger but what he was on about was the manner of shipping, in and out in hours sometimes and the very different style of crew now.
He works the cranes from an office in Port Melbourne, one of the other wharfs works theirs from an office in Malaya, cheaper labor.
The industry is attempting to focus some of its efforts on minimizing pollutants and reduce the use of dirty fuel. HFO accounts for a decent percentage amount of air pollution worldwide and the mega vessels use tremendous amounts of it at times making it profit prohibitive for some lanes depending on capacity and booking rates. At this point in time, some container carriers are scaling back a bit due to low utilization in comparison to the past 2 years.
A few unconnected thoughts about the main article:
Digital Censoring sounds rather spooky. I thought at first this was some realtime fingerprint detection technology. Or facial recognition software developed by Huawei.
The old romantics who populate this website will probably find all this new stuff depressing. Where's the romance and who wants to sail on any of these mega abominations? Ships that can only dock at, at most, half a dozen remote ports in the whole world, with each docking lasting no more than 12 hours.
For those interested in recent developments here are a couple of sites I visit occasionally:
https://www.wind-ship.org/en/grid-homepage/
https://www.decadeofwindpropulsion.org/
And if you are into wind-propelled shipping on a small scale:
https://www.piriou.com/en/grain-de-s...ain-de-sail-2/
This is one I'd pay to sail on.