Port Revel is an artificial 13-acre lake in southeastern France that is the center of a ship handling school. The owners have designed this lake to simulate a variety of common ship handling challenges. Since 1966, the P...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/06/12/Ship-Captains-Practice-Piloting-on-Tiny-Versions-of-Huge-Ships/Unless you live near a commercial harbor or work i... ...ustry, you might not know the ins and outs of the shipping business. And that's most of us. But tugboat oper... ...olumes about a particular ship and also about the shipping industry.The numbers, marks, and even the color s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/04/13/The-Secret-Language-of-Ships/Modern ships can haul some extremely large cargo,... ...e UK was grateful, but couldn't cover the cost of shipping the ancient, 21 metre high, 224 tonne structure.... ...emains a true London landmark.Read more oversized shipping
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/09/04/The-Biggest-Things-Ever-to-be-Transported-by-Sea/NoZb2k ordered a new monitor from Korea. It was shipped via UPS, and this is the route it's taken so far: Korea to Alaska to Korea to Great Britain (where they wanted a duty paid) to Louisville to Philadelphia to Germany...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/01/14/Taking-the-Scenic-Route/(Image credit: FedEx)Whether it’s delivering... ...e World Equestrian Games, FedEx rules the animal- shipping kingdom. David Lange, director of charter operat... ...e ton or 80 pounds, you buy the entire airplane. Shipping an animal is different from shipping a box....
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/10/13/How-to-Ship-a-Panda/[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qxUQ7E6hOo](Vide... ...hed MSC Zoe is the Death Star of the transoceanic shipping business. It's no moon, but a fully operational s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/The-Worlds-Largest-Container-Ship-Plays-the-Star-Wars-Theme-on-Its-Horn/(Photo: Roel Hemkes)Never mind a cruise ship. Those are like floating 5-star hotels. A more offbeat approach to sea travel is to book passage on a freighter. This is called “container ship tourism.” Most larg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/11/For-Adventurous-Travelers-Container-Ship-Tourism/When it is completed, the first ship in Maersk Tri... ...photo set of this amazing machine here.The Maersk shipping line plans to build 20 of these marvels, each of... ...h of which is 59 meters wide and can carry 18,000 shipping containers. When the first one is complete, it wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/10/15/Photos-of-the-Largest-Ship-Ever-Built-Now-Under-Construction/(Photo: Dayton Daily News)Kevin Whitney is a farmer in Chickasa, Oklahoma. One day last October, he leaned over a grain elevator while inspecting its interior. His cell phone fell out of his shirt pocket and into a silo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/07/10/Oklahoma-Farmer-Loses-Phone-in-Grain-Elevator-Gets-It-Back-from-Japan/This is the Seaspan Harvester. It's a log barge that operates off the western coast of Canada. When it's time to offload its cargo of logs, the crew shifts the ballast inside. The ship tilts 30º and the logs slide o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/16/Watch-This-Cargo-Ship-Deliberately-Tip-over-to-Dump-Its-Timber-in-the-Sea/
