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A shrimp coketail

Thanks to the efforts of one intrepid drug-sniffing dog, the feds discovered 268 kilos of cocaine stuffed inside shrimp last week, reports the New York Daily News. The shipping container arrived at Red Hook Terminal after traveling from Guyana, according to court documents revealed Wednesday in Brooklyn Federal Court. Homeland Security agents confiscated the coke-filled […]

Overweight containers – the problem

With the introduction date for the amendments in the SOLAS convention July 1 2016 speeding towards us, the time will soon come when all shipping containers weights must be verified before loading onto vessels. Today we wanted to share with you a list of the problems that result for mis-declared container weights. Mis-declared container weights […]

Brazen container robbery

A mystery is unfolding in Canada with audacious criminals using a stolen Freightliner truck to remove a twenty foot container from the port of Montreal. The truck was taken from the west end of the island and then used to transport the container from the wharf.  The container was full of 16 tonnes of silver, […]

Biosecurity barriers in place for stink bugs

Heightened biosecurity measures will be in place at our ports and offshore from 1 September 2015, to protect Australia’s agriculture sector from the potentially devastating exotic brown marmorated stink bug. Minister for Agriculture, Barnaby Joyce, said the measures applied in early 2015 to manage the risk these bugs posed were successful and similar requirements would […]

Container ship windshield

The MOL Marvel is the guinea pig for a innovative invention, the container ship windshield. This brand new technology is hoping to cut CO2 emissions along with increasing fuel savings. This bright white windshield was recently placed on the bow of the container ship MOL Marvel.  It’s a horseshoe shaped design that encloses the front […]

Top ten shipping centres 2015

The Xinhua-Baltic Exchange International Shipping Centers Index 2015 was jointly published by Xinhua News Agency and the London-based Baltic Exchange, an independent provider of ocean freight index. The index measures port conditions, services and the environment of each shipping center and tracks dozens of major ports across the globe. The top ten list FOR 2015 […]

A Class Act

Coming out of Bolton, UK today is a fantastic piece of cargotecture.  A local school, St Bede Academy, have constructed additional classrooms using pre-loved shipping containers. Want to check out the pictures of this useful recycling project?     These cheaper to construct, quicker to erect classrooms are now easing the pressure of the large […]

Performance not enhanced

The Australian Border Force (ABF), Victoria Police and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) have joined hands to ensure that 118kgs of Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs (PIED) will never hit our streets. Two men and a woman were arrested following an investigation that commenced in Melbourne in January 2015.  At both Sydney and Melbourne’s International […]

Shipping container skyscrapers

What’s currently being envisaged by China based CRG Architects? Shipping container based skyscrapers for Mumbai, India! This amazing design would see two towers built out of shipping containers, one would be 400m tall (139 floors), with the other being half it’s size at 200m (78 floors). The containers would be painted colourfully, and would twist […]