(Photo: Marine Traffic)At 400 meters long, the newly-launched Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller is the largest ship in the world. It left the South Korean port of Busan, where it was built, on July 16th en route to Rotterdam. The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/08/09/The-Worlds-Largest-Ship-Launched/[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EmSkyFDe6Y](Video Link)The Paul R. Tregurtha is the Queen of the Lakes--the largest ship operating on the Great Lakes. On Monday, it became the first ship of the season to pass through th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/27/Time-Lapse-Video-Massive-Freighter-Passing-through-Locks/Randall Munroe, the cartoonist behind xkcd and a profoundly brainy guy, answers bizarre physics questions submitted to his What If? blog. His most recent question pondered the effect of the sudden absence of the water di...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/20/What-Would-Happen-if-Every-Ship-Was-Removed-from-the-Oceans-at-Once/If you've ever received a box of Christmas treats... ...bakery in Brooklyn, New York. "But definitely for shipping you have to." You don't want to ship any cookie o... ...batch and see what happens. And there's a bonus: shipping
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/09/How-to-Ship-Cookies-and-Other-Treats-for-the-Holidays/How much do you know about the pallet, that "humbl... ...inal 864, which created a 60 percent reduction in shipping costs. There is a whole science of “pallet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/21/The-Single-Most-Important-Object-in-the-Global-Economy/You know how hard it is to travel to other pla... ...ising, but pole-vaulters have little recourse. Shipping companies are inconvenient and ineffective, becau... ...travel stories, from airline clerks who reversed shipping policy to broken poles to driving with poles on t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/24/for-pole-vaulters-clearing-the-bar-is-the-easy-part/(YouTube link) Ben Schmidt took data from ship's logs to make a visualization of ocean traffic between 1750 and 1850. It is not meant to be comprehensive, as logs from many nations are not represented, and traffic on th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/16/100-years-of-ships/The port of Singapore is very busy and maritime traffic there is only increasing. The number of oil, gas, and chemical tankers alone has risen by 5.8% in just the past month. Ron Wheeler snapped this picture of a nea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/14/near-collision-between-two-oil-tankers/Have you ever wished you could shut yourself o... ...yne Long has taken this thought to the next level shipping himself from Arkansas to Oregon in a crate while... ...up for an Amazon credit card in order to get free shipping . Long plans to update the interested masses via h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/23/man-ships-self-across-country-playing-mmo/The editors of Popular Mechanics placed sensors inside a package and shipped it through three major package delivery firms in order to determine which company handled it the most gently. These sensors measured the vibra...
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