by Tec Container | Feb 15, 2023 | Curiosities
The global supply chain crisis is a widespread disruption in the flow of goods, services and information across the world that started in 2021 and continues till 2023. This crisis was caused by several factors: These factors have led to bottlenecks in the supply...
by Tec Container | Aug 31, 2022 | Curiosities
Mainly, there are seven different types of merchant ships that you can commonly see on ports around the world. These main types of merchant ships are: General cargo ships, Bulk cargo ships, Crude oil tankers ships, chemical tankers ships, Container ships, Passangers /...
by Tec Container | Jul 22, 2022 | Container terminal safety, Curiosities
Last year Port Skills and Safety published a report gathering data on Port Industry Accidents in the UK, ranging from 2014 to 2020. More than 40 companies, members of PSS, took part in this study, allowing a rough estimate of the main causes of accidents in Ports of...
by Tec Container | Aug 2, 2021 | Curiosities
¿What is a Strait? According to the Wikipedia a strait is a naturally formed, narrow, typically navigable waterway that connects two larger bodies of water. Most commonly it is a channel of water that lies between two land masses. As being able to transport goods...
by Tec Container | Jun 29, 2021 | Curiosities, Sustainability
The freight shipping industry is experiencing the largest increase in containers lost at sea for seven years. More than 3,000 containers fell into the sea in 2020, and more than 1,000 have fallen overboard so far in 2021, Bloomberg reports. There are a series of...
by Tec Container | May 6, 2021 | Curiosities
Moving goods on major maritime transport routes has been creating many problems in recent months for companies’ logistics departments. The cost of maritime transport has tripled since Europe came out of lockdown, and the market has ruled out seeing again the low...
