I’m just saving this one for the next time someone’s all “be careful bunkering in third world countries”

Oh no. Oooooh no. Oh no no no no nooooooooo.

This gets suggested every three years and it never goes anywhere because a) cost-wise, not competitive with rail and road and b) customers relying on JIT don’t want to wait a week or three days for the next departure when they can just have a truck bring their one container now.

What's the difference between a boat and a ship?

Doesn't matter, but you can safely ignore anybody who rants about it.

Fascinating tech, but the question remains - who are they going to use as a scapegoat when something goes wrong?

Ever wonder how much it costs to charter a ship? Wonder no more. (The amounts are in USD per day, exclusive of fuel and port costs)

This is a puff piece about Maersk's methanol-powered ships. Do better, Reuters.

"These measures include the widespread deployment of wind-assisted technology, reducing speeds by 20-30%, and a 5-10% uptake of zero-GHG fuels. Additionally, such a reduction would increase shipping costs by 6-14% on average, relative to business-as-usual (BAU)."

And I'd like a pony.

Periodic reminder that some shipping companies sometime make money buying ships cheap and selling them when the market comes back up. Four million gain on a 17.5 mill sale.

This is kind of a big deal, because for a Panamax vessel, every centimeter of draft you have to remove is roughly 70 tons of cargo from the vessel, and you can't really do that once you've sailed from your load port.

This isn't surprising, since MSC's been snatching up all the second-hand container feeder tonnage they could see for the past couple years.