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Hekima Day Care and Nursery School Update 2

Today is Friday which means that EES Shipping staff are in free dress, donating a gold coin to a good cause. For years now we have been raising funds for the Hekima Day Care and Nursery School in Tanzania. All sorts of things have been purchased using this donation money.  From exercise books, to desks […]

MOL Precision detained in Seattle

The U.S. Coast Guard has detained an MOL containership in Seattle over multiple significant violations discovered during port state control inspections. The violations were discovered Thursday by Port State Control officers from Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound aboard the Panama-flagged MOL Precision. Violations included defective oil bilge line filtering equipment, missing security training records, and […]

Colony of ants found in shipping containers

Two shipping containers that arrived in Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii from mainland United States have been discovered to be riddled with Black Carpenter Ants. Crew alerted local pest control after discovering the insects in one of the containers of large oak timbers that arrived in from Tennessee.  The contents were to be used for […]

Operations resume at Port Metro Vancouver

Wednesday the 4th March saw a hazardous shipping container loaded with Trichloroisocyanuric acid go up in flames at Port Metro Vancouver. Fire crews battled the blaze for over 24 hours, with the fire sending huge plumes of smoke into the air over East Vancouver.  This prompted a shelter in place order to all residents off […]

Rogue Containers in Wellington Harbour

  Three floating bright orange shipping containers have gained notoriety in New Zealand. The three containers, which were empty, were blown into the harbour in winds in excess of 100km/h. Harbourmaster Mike Pryce commented “I can’t remember the last time, I think last time two blew off a container ship, but I can’t recall them […]

Australia-China Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA)

The Australia-China Free Trade Agreement is being billed as the deal of a lifetime for the Australian Economy. We’ve been nipping at the heels of the ChAFTA Implementation Team to find out how the deal is going, and details of the implementation timeline. Australia and China concluded FTA negotiations on 17 November 2014. Both countries […]

Port of Vancouver chemical fire

Image credit: @IAFF18, Twitter Firefighters have been called in to battle a chemical fire at the Port of Vancouver.  The fire started in a shipping container containing hazardous material at Port Metro Vancouver. The Vancouver Fire Department received the call at 1.38PM local time, with the shipping container in question being located in the Centerm […]

International drug syndicate dismantled

^ Australia’s top agencies have joined forces to break up an international drug syndicate that reached from Colombia to Australia and also included Europe. Polaris Joint Waterfront Taskforce (JWT, the Australian Federal Police (AFP), the New South Wales Police Force (NSWPF), Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS) and Australian Crime Commission, along with the […]

Westside container village

Image credit: ABC News This weekend is shaping up to be a great one in Canberra. The shores of Lake Burley Griffin are set to come alive with the grand opening of Westside container village. Now, apart from living in recycled shipping container, swimming in pre-loved shipping container or staring at furniture inspired by shipping containers, […]