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The First

Over the last few months, there has been several articles on the different “world’s largest” vessels.  A few of these vessel have made their first calls into particular ports, and have been celebrated in style. We’ve put all the details together and have come up with this fantastic gallery – what a sight! 1.  MSC […]

A tobacco sniffing pirate

Pirate, a trainee detector dog for the Australia Border Force, recently put his sniffing skills to good use, discovering 80kgs of illicit tobacco hidden in air cargo in Victoria. During inspection of air cargo that had arrived into Melbourne airport, Pirate stopped at a certain container, indicating the presence of tobacco. An x-ray of the […]

Snake on a ship

We’re all heard of the Hollywood hit, Snakes on a Plane, but how about real-life Snake on a Ship? Doesn’t quite have the same ring to it, but it’s still terrifying never the less! The Maersk Sana – image credit: leon van duivandijk A crew member from the container ship Maersk Sana recently discovered a […]

Robust container pools

If you’ve followed our blog for awhile, you would love that we love everything to do with shipping containers.  Whether it’s classrooms, skyscrapers or family homes made of recycled shipping containers, we’re there. These sturdy steel boxes are relentless in proving that you can do just about anything with them or to them. Shipping containers […]

Christmas wrap-up

The staff at EES had a fantastic time celebrating Christmas this year.Santa (this year Shaun stepped up and did a fantastic job) got comfortable on the warehouse lounge.  His accommodating lap was enjoyed by all! Here is a fantastic collage of everyone receiving their gifts. After receiving our presents, we headed down to our local, […]

Over $30 million worth of narcotics seized at our border in November

ABF officers intercepted more than 40 shipments of illicit drugs in air cargo and international mail in November with an estimated street value of more than $30 million. The smuggling attempts in international post, air and sea cargo were foiled across Australia. In total officers detected about 86kg of ephedrine, 70kg of methamphetamine, 45 litres […]

New container ship, interesting bow

Japanese shipping company Imoto Lines has taken delivery of the new 540 TEU coastal feeder vessel Natori with its innovative if not somewhat odd-looking forward bridge. The design semi-spherical bow design is proprietary to Japan’s Kyokuyo Shipyard and was developed to help reduce wind resistance. You may recognize the design because it has also been used on two car carriers, […]

EES Festive Trading Hours

Please kindly find following EES Shipping’s Holiday Period Trading Hours: Christmas Eve: Thursday 24/12 – Close at 12pm Christmas Day: Friday 25/12 – Closed Boxing Day Public Holiday: Monday 28/12 – Closed New Years Eve: Thursday 31/12 – Close at 2pm New Years Day: Friday 01/01/2016 – Closed We will resume normal working operations on […]

Container your excitement

Forget The Prodigy and Julian Clary this festival season — the hottest acts may very well be the shipping containers being ordered for pop-up bars and merchandise kiosks and the businesses supplying them. Shipping container supplier, Royal Wolf, has hundreds of orders from a host of major events across the country, and CEO Neil Littlewood […]