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Chilly Beach after cargo floats in

Shelly Beach could be renamed “Chilly Beach” after a container of fridges has washed up on it’s shore – the contents being spilled along the sand. The container was no longer in tact, and had been battered by the reef, spilling the fridges.. The container was one of five lost overboard on Saturday night (26th […]

Las Vegas Dream Park

At EES we believe in supporting dreams, no matter how big or…unusual. When we read about the lofty goals of Josh Kearney, a humble Aussie farm boy who wants to create the first amusement park in Las Vegas, we jumped on board straight away. Want to know why? Mr Kearney wants to use re-purposed shipping […]

ACBPS Puppies make children smile

The children at Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) in Melbourne received some playful visitors on Good Friday. These visitors were rambunctious, drooling and totally adorable. They were six week old Australian Customs and Border Protection Labrador Puppies, visiting the Children’s Hospital (for the first time) as part of the annual Good Friday Appeal. A fully grown […]

The Container Restaurant

It doesn’t get much simpler than this. Located in Durango, Colorado this amazingly straightforward restaurant takes our breath away for two simple reasons. 1.    It’s fantastic use of two pre-loved shipping containers. 2.    The mouth watering food that is shown to comes out of it’s kitchen. This is The Container Restaurant , taking up a […]

High Risk Areas – Pirates

EES have reported a few times on pirates.  When they’ve attacked near Singapore, and also when there was multiple attacks in November 2013.  There are way too many incidents that occur that we do not report on. Most of us have seen the Captain Phillips movie by now, and if you haven’t seen it, you […]

What is transhipment?

Do you wonder what happens to your cargo once it leaves the port of loading? Ever looked at your bill of lading and found that the vessel that is moving your cargo into your final destination is different from the vessel that the cargo departed on? Have you heard of the term “transhipment” and wondered […]

Felixstowe Port expands

  One million cubic meters of the ocean’s floor is beginning to be dredged up in the Port of Felixstowe as the harbor begins to prepare for expansion. To allow for bigger container ships to dock, the quay will be dug out to a depth of 18metres. Hutchison Ports, owner of the freight terminal in […]

Meet the Team – Mitch Williams

Welcome to our second installment in our Meet the Team series. Today we spend some time with our BDM, Mitch Williams..

Ocean Rubbish and the search for Flight MH370

Like a lot of the world, we are following the search for Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. Every day a trickle of new information is released but so far there has been nothing solid. While there has been multiple sightings of patches of debris (via satellite) these have proven to be just junk which begs the […]