Extreme Engineering - Container Ships Part 2 of 5
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The narrator is right if ICTF Long Beach comes to a halt COSTCO (container at 1:53) will not get its shipment,stores will go empty,and America and the world will grind to a halt. it is ICFT Long Beaches job to get every container off a ship and send the rest that is coming in to Singapore to keep the conveyor belt of trade going.
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The Adrian and the Alabama are in this episode both got jacked by Somali Pirates in the Gulf. their crews defeated them and delivered the cargo on time.
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@panther105 you americans are too afraid of real mens work lol
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steel cut weld hand
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ur talking about safety just visit the hanjin phillipines and ul see for urself how unsafe working in hanjin
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Probaby between 23 - 27 knots i should think
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how fast can this monster goes?
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Interesting, because usually European govts. are even stricter than the US when it comes to safety regs. Not sure about China, though.....
I guess this show was made before the Emma Maersk keel was laid.
panamcunard 3 years ago 4
Oh yeah.
HrsaILA 3 years ago
11 million containers on 8000 ships a year at just that 1 port, that is crazy
anyone know the worlds total number of containers shipped around the world a year
imluvinyourmum 3 years ago 4
The amount they speake of is not individual containers of course. Some containers may return to the same port several times in a year. I know Maersk alone has over 1.2 millon + containers in there fleet... if Had to take a guess from all the ship lines in the world... 15 - 20 million active on ships and sitting at ports. This is not counting any retired containers.
HrsaILA 3 years ago
There is a scene in this program showing a Danish guy torch cutting some steel beams directly under a section of the bow wave nose WHILE IT IS BEING SUSPENDED UNDER A GANTRY CRANE!!!! This is insane! Longshore workers would never do something this stupid. Crane hydraulics can rupture anytime or cables can break. This was a very dumb move. I hope he was reprimanded.....
panther105 4 years ago 5
True... this is a big NO NO in america but... I don't think they care as much overseas.
HrsaILA 3 years ago