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The Antonov is almost here

It’s only a few more days until the Antonov AN-225 Myira arrives into Perth.  Are you as excited as me us? Here’s the flight plan that the Antonov will be taking on it’s way to our airport: Aviation WA reports  that the Antonov An-225 has departed its home base at Gostomel (near Kiev), Ukraine and […]

Two vessels collide off Ningbo

Container ships Safmarine Meru and the Northern Jasper have been involved in a collision off Ningbo Port in China. The incident occurred early Sunday morning, the 8th May.  The collision caused major damage to the Safmarine Meru with a fire breaking out shortly after the accident.  All twenty two crew members abandoned ship and remain […]

Air cargo prohibition modifications

Finally some good news this month on the prohibition of air cargo arriving into Australia from Bangladesh.  Put in place on the 17th December 2015, modifications have now been made on the instrument that can be seen below: The Australian Government has modified the restrictions placed on air cargo originating from or transiting through Bangladesh. […]

60 tonnes of illegally imported honey found

The three shipping container loads (195 barrels) of bulk honey were illegally smuggled into the United States from China. (Department of Homeland Security/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ) Federal agents in Chicago have seized 60 tons of illegally imported Chinese honey valued at more than $200,000 destined for U.S. consumers, the U.S. Department of […]

The Truth Behind the Shipping Container Homes Craze

They’re sleek. They’re innovative. They’re metal. They’re eco-conscious and sustainable. Did we mention hip? It’s little wonder that shipping container homes have become a national obsession, threatening even to overtake traditional tiny homes in the hearts and imaginations of new homebuyers looking for something way out of the ordinary. And best of all? They actually […]

Construction starts on Singapore’s Tuas Terminal

Singapore, the world’s second-busiest container port, has started building a harbour to double the island-city’s capacity to meet growing demand. The first of a four-phase development of the deep-water port in the western part of Singapore started last Friday, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore said in a statement. The initial stage would have […]

Dozens of 40ft containers crash into water

This is the moment 44 huge shipping containers crashed into the water like enormous Lego bricks. The astonishing footage shows the boat begin to tip before the large storage boxes topple into the Yangtze River in China. The accident, which happened at Shanghai’s port Waigaoqiao Dock saw the 40ft long containers fall one after another […]

Your daily serve..

It seems as though the “bad guys” are at it again, hiding drugs inside shipping containers along with fruit and vegetables. These aren’t the first instances of this happening.  Back at the beginning of 2014, we reported on staff at Aldi in Berlin finding cocaine in crates of bananas.  Police referred to the incident as […]

Panama Canal Lottery

The expansion of the Panama Canal is now basically complete with bookings for the first vessels through the improved waterways now being taken. The largest infrastructure project since the waterway’s original construction, the Panama Canal Expansion Program has created a new lane of traffic along the Canal through the construction of a new set of […]