Bloomberg (March 26)
“After the year we’ve all had, we needed a global crisis as hilarious as a container ship the size of the Empire State Building getting stuck sideways in the Suez Canal, bringing global shipping to a screeching (splashing? doggy paddling?) halt.”
Tags: Container ship, Empire State Building, Global crisis, Halts, Hilarious, Shipping, Stuck, Suez Canal
Los Angeles Times (December 29)
“In an effort to move more cargo on less fuel, ocean freight carriers are in a race to build megaships with much larger capacities than the typical ships calling at U.S. ports. The average container ship being built now is nearly three times the size of the average a decade ago.”
Tags: Cargo, Container ship, Fuel, Megaships, Ocean freight, Ports, Race, Size