Panamax Concepts

Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them

by Donovan Hohn · 1 Jan 2010 · 473pp · 154,182 words

moments of thought. The next thing you know, it’s the middle of the night and you’re on the outer decks of a post-Panamax freighter due south of the Aleutian island where, in 1741, shipwrecked, Vitus Bering perished from scurvy and hunger. The winds are gale force. The water

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damage the APL China had suffered, one must first appreciate the full extent of the APL China. The China was a C-11-class post-Panamax ship, meaning that—at 906 feet long and 131 feet wide—it was too big for the locks of the Panama Canal. Standing on a

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. Along this route, the toys had broken free, changing from containerized cargo into legendary characters. Along this route, some oceanic force had beaten a post-Panamax ship to ribbons. Now, from Pusan, I’d travel this route. I also had other, vaguer, more philosophical reasons for shipping out, reasons that the

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, this wish. PORT OF CALL. PUSAN. 35°04’N, 129°06’E. It seems that my ship, the Hanjin Ottawa—a 5,618-TEU post-Panamax box boat built right here, in the South Korean shipyards—has been delayed by dirty weather in Shanghai. I’ve called Mr. Shin every day

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’s List warned the marine-insurance industry of this “alarming new danger,” which appears to be an unintended consequence of the oversize, U-shaped, post-Panamax hull. France’s findings not only helped explain the mystery of the China; they would later help explain what had happened to the Maersk Carolina

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clear. A crescent moon rises to starboard. Through a porthole in the main lab I watch the black shape of a cargo ship—a post-Panamax container ship, by the look of it—cross the sunset in silhouette. After a dinner of buttery fish and rice in the mess, the Knorr

Dead or Alive

by Tom Clancy and Grant (CON) Blackwood · 7 Dec 2010 · 795pp · 212,447 words

of the information her employer was seeking. Why in the world, she wondered, did they care about groundwater in the middle of a desert? As Panamax “box ships” went, the Losan was small, a “twelve abreast” 2,700 TEU—twenty-foot equivalent units—vessel measuring 542 feet, whose capacity had long

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since been surpassed by Post Panamax descendants, but Tarquay Industries of Smithfield, Virginia, was less interested in modernity than it was in cutting its losses. Of the 120 five-hundred-gallon

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tell anybody I talked about this stuff, okay? They’d throw me in jail.” She smiled and wiped a tear from her cheek. “Promise.” The Panamax cargo ship Losan was three days from its destination, having made the bulk of the Atlantic crossing on calm seas and under clear skies. Losan

The Docks

by Bill Sharpsteen · 5 Jan 2011 · 326pp · 29,543 words

called flopping, and wait their turn for another, easier position. While the lashers are busy, the crane drivers position the terminal’s four Super Post-Panamax cranes, better known as hammerheads, that can reach over any ship’s girth and, with a 1,000-ton capacity, snatch the containers one by

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Costco, 135 Covarrubias, Jose, 169, 170, 176 Coynes, Mark, 274 CRA (Community Redevelopment Agency, Los Angeles), 85, 91 cranes: low-profile, 61; Super Post-Â� Panamax, 38 Crescent shipping line, 94 Crouthamel, Charles, 49 Crouthamel, Jeff, 47 Crowley, Tom, 265 Crowley, Tom Jr., 266 Crowley Maritime Services, 265 cruise ship terminal

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; riot of July 3, 1934, 110; San Francisco general strike, 115; use of tear gas, 109, 110, 113 St. Sure, Paul, 123, 193 Super Post-Panamax cranes, 38 swampers’ board, 190 Swift Transportation, 172 Taft-Hartley Act, 140 Takasugi, Robert M., 212, 218 Teamsters, 115, 174, 177, 192 Terminal Island, 27

Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs

by Juli Berwald · 4 Apr 2022 · 495pp · 114,451 words

east coast of the United States to increase capacity for the new, larger vessels, named, as if for a sequel to a futuristic thriller, Neo-Panamax. In Miami, the $205 million expansion to deepen 2.5 miles of the port’s ship channel and accommodate the Neo

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-Panamax vessels began in 2013. The shipping lane was slated to cut through a staghorn coral reef. Since the species was designated as threatened under the

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, 231, 232, 237–38, 240–41 Neanderthals, 45 Nedimyer, Kelly, 95–96 Nedimyer, Ken, 95–96 nematocysts (stinging cells), 37, 79, 97, 170, 293 Neo-Panamax, 99 New Caledonia, 26 New York Times, The, 249 nitrogen, 4, 36–39, 73, 290 Nobel Prizes, 120, 229, 243 Nova Southeastern University, 108, 208

Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy

by Christopher Mims · 13 Sep 2021 · 385pp · 112,842 words

must all be on high alert. Fishing boats, cargo ships of every size—from rusting old bulk carriers to the largest container ships afloat, “Post-Panamax” vessels carrying nearly twice the cargo on the Brussels—and assorted other flotsam litter the ship’s radar, the horizon, and all the sea between

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, Brad, 175, 181, 183, 227, 239 Portland, OR, port of, 52 ports. See automation, at ports; containerized shipping; ships and shipping Postmates, 217, 265 post-panamax vessels, 27, 37 predictability: automation, predictability, and efficiency, relationship between, 230–32; ships and shipping, predictability versus speed in, 35–36 preppers, 7 Price, Chuck

Lonely Planet Panama (Travel Guide)

by Lonely Planet and Carolyn McCarthy · 30 Jun 2013

maximum capacity and will reach its saturation point in less than five years. The biggest challenge the Panama Canal faces is luring the enormous post-Panamax vessels, which currently depend on either the US Transcontinental Railroad or the Suez Canal. But those in favor of the canal expansion are hoping that

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it’s estimated that the value of tolls will increase significantly over the next 20 years, the hope is that the expected flow of post-Panamax vessels through the canal will eventually pick up the tab. Sights 1 Miraflores Locks Miraflores Visitors Center MUSEUM ( 276-8325; www.pancanal.com; viewing deck

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

by Marc Levinson · 1 Jan 2006 · 477pp · 135,607 words

could hold up to 3,500 20-foot containers—more than had entered all U.S. ports combined during an average week in 1968. These Panamax vessels—the maximum size that could fit through the Panama Canal—could haul a container at much lower cost than could their predecessors. The construction

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so clear, and so large, that in 1988 ship lines began buying vessels too wide to fit through the Panama Canal. These so-called Post-Panamax ships needed deeper water and longer piers than many ports could offer. They were uneconomic to run on most of the world’s shipping lanes

Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance

by Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna · 23 May 2016 · 437pp · 113,173 words

, it was because a 5,000 TEU ship was the biggest that could squeeze through the locks of the Panama Canal (such ships are labeled “Panamax”), and no one wanted to buy a container ship that could not serve global shipping’s most important route: the canal link between the Americas

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of the biggest shipping companies in the world, Maersk of Denmark, decided to challenge that orthodoxy. It took delivery of the 6,400-TEU “post-Panamax” ship Regina. The economic center of gravity, Maersk reasoned, was shifting. The Panama Canal was irrelevant to the fastest-growing trade routes: the Pacific routes

Infinite Detail

by Tim Maughan · 1 Apr 2019 · 303pp · 81,071 words

a huge burst of light above them. One of the Zodiac crew has climbed the top of the vast, five-hundred-foot-high super-post-Panamax crane that towers above and over them, and lit a flare. As it’s slowly waved back and forth it scatters light across the crane

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at the fields of containers in awe, before returning home to their speculative models, VR art installations, and thousand-word prose-poem odes to post-Panamax cranes. But Simon had started to hate it all. It had silently consumed him with anger and fury at its extravagance, its wasted potential, its

Greater: Britain After the Storm

by Penny Mordaunt and Chris Lewis · 19 May 2021 · 516pp · 116,875 words

that commerce from the East and West Coasts of North America can reach China ever more easily. This will be matched with another two proposed Panamax-sized canals, the first in Nicaragua – the Grand Nicaragua Canal – and the second across the Kra Peninsula in Thailand – the Thai Canal.48 China is

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to Rotterdam and then south through the Suez Canal back to China.51 The widening of the Suez Canal to accommodate two-way traffic and Panamax-size tankers is one of the biggest projects of all within the BRI.52 All this investment will add at least a further $5 trillion