The backbone of Global trade is the need to transport goods safely, efficiently, and cost-effectively by avoiding delays in ports and optimizing the combination of the different modes of transportation. Because containerization satisfied these needs it has now become the major means for transporting goods and materials around the world. Containerization is a system that…
Shipboard cargo damage can occur for several reasons. These include accidents caused by moisture, flooding, or rainwater. Moisture damage, however, is one of the most prevalent causes of cargo damage and a major source of cargo claims, for a variety of reasons. On ships, moisture that causes cargo damage is referred to as “sweat.” Sweat…
What a telemotor is, how its transmitter and receiver send the helm order to the steering gear, the hydraulic and electric types, and how it is maintained.
How ship steering gear moves the rudder, its main parts and types, follow-up and non-follow-up modes, and the SOLAS rules for testing and emergency drills.
Where a ship’s center of gravity and center of buoyancy sit, how loading moves them, and how they create the righting lever that keeps a ship upright.
Step-by-step Williamson, Anderson and Scharnow turn procedures for man overboard recovery, with IAMSAR’s immediate, delayed and person-missing situations.
Seafarers, particularly the bridge officers, always need to know the two most important information onboard a ship. The heading or the course, and position of the vessel. Sextant allows the mariners to measure the angle of a celestial body to the horizon. That attitude of either the Sun or stars and the time it was…
Ships carry a wide array of goods ranging from foodstuff, machinery, vehicles, oil, gas, and dry goods. At the port, the goods are unloaded from one vessel to the warehouse or from one warehouse to another that is ready for transportation to the next destinations or put in warehouses as they await repackaging, customs clearance,…
The Great North River Tugboat Race has run in New York Harbour since 1991. It is one of the few events in North America where working port vessels compete in public. Every year on the Sunday before Labor Day, tugboats race a one-nautical-mile course down the Hudson River off Manhattan’s West Side. The audience ranges…
Ghana has two major seaports, Tema and Takoradi. See every port and harbour in Ghana with port codes, regions, 2024 container figures and which to ship through.