If a gregorian era pirates cannonball hit a container ship, would it damage it or bounce off?

@@Gwanchi They have RPGs thus they can set them on fire that is the problem. They could fall off but they are more concerned of it blowing up. That is why flammable cargo is not on the edges or sides.

@@Gwanchi oh you are talking about old era pirates well it would damage it for sure.

I was just about to mention 😂😂

Bro this is high quiality content, you should upload more often, you could easily make a living

It's in the description with a link to an article about him and his death.

Wrong. Malcomb McClean invented the standardized container.

I think it's less that someone invented it, and more that everyone agreed to it. Writing a standard is easy, getting everyone to agree to use it is much harder.

It's always fun to see how bad people mess up on subjects we are familiar with lol

@@ke6gwf That is very true lol, it's also fun when seeing it being very accurate as well

I work on container ships and I've done the same thing, this guy's pretty much right, some bits that aren't 100% accurate from the company I work for but could be company specific

I retired 20 years ago and here I am still watching.I guess its in my blood. Seeing the newest technology is amazing

I retired from SCSPA last year. I am so glad I did😃

Tell me about it! This is like air crash investigations when he first started, this is gonna be a hit!

I loved watching air crash investigations when I was younger still do

I have a question for y pls

@@melloukacharf2796 i do the same thing whats up?

Ya it’s a very interesting industry due to how many moving parts it has going on all at once, just scheduling when a ship can come into port is a nightmare as depending on where they are going you have to make sure there’s enough tide to reach minimum under keel clearance with enough room for any bridges and how these tides change during the transit in harbor

In San Francisco the minimum UKC is only 3 but with ships making 47 foot drafts and the channels dredged to ~50 feet it’s difficult plus we have some low bridges, my father has been able to touch the bridge from on top of the ship and talk with workers on there

@@owenruff4796 Isn't it a requirement for all cargo ships to be able to get through the Panama Canal though? I certainly wouldn't want cargo from Norfolk to Singapore to have to go through the Drake Passage

@@someonerandom704 there is no requirement for anything, the company designs their ships for how they would be used so if it doesn’t need to fit such as if they plan to go around South America/Africa which has been happening a lot more bc of how corrupt the canals are. Then so be it. It also has to fit into the ports they want it to go to

@@owenruff4796 Another question--if there are a lot of ships trying to unload at the same port at once and they form a queue, do the ships wait in national or international waters?

Another example would be the Internet Protocol and other telecommunication standards :)

Japan has their own smaller containers- I think it's due to smaller loading gauge on railways. Trucks still carry both. Other than that, I'm pretty sure they are everywhere.

May I correct myself? The containers are smaller due to Japan using different forklift truck pallets.

Actually America's pretty metric people just don't know it a lot of things that they sell in imperial units at the store is just normal intervals of metric units with them imperial labeling on them.

@@scremingwhisper1720 And, the yard isn't defined "the length of such and such rod stored at this place" like it used to. It's defined by the metre! (same with all imperial)

I'm really curious about how you could make a video like this without knowing how to pronounce that. Who is producing the script?

a i. notta person

@@planaritytheory just someone who reads more than they hear.

@@planaritytheory he might be dyslexic and never heard that word before

easy mistake to make

What about "frozen bananas" in reefers? He is talking bananas.

Me, too... but the really good ones don't stay small.

So Twice As Interesting then

@@ZaHandle WOAH!? Wendover is great!

Gibraltar is more well known so that is why I put it down

Tell me a out it. Some ships I would work would have 6 and 7 revisions for a single crane.

This is true not just in container shipping but in other shipping companies as well. I've worked for FedEx for a little over 5.5 years and a lot of the decisions are made by corporate higher-ups when it comes to how things are run, and what decisions need to be made. FedEx Prides itself on safety, so most of the decisions made are for safety reasons. For instance all switcher trucks in most hubs around the country are governed at 10 miles an hour. Regardless of the size of the building. This puts incredible stress and strain on the switchers driving them due to how slow they move. not to mention the negative interactions with OTR drivers who often don't know that the switches are governed to get pissed off at us for moving so slow. Corporate will occasionally visit the building, because it's performing so poorly, but they're not doing it writes IMO, you have to show up, unannounced, and dress like a normal package handler and see what this Hub is really about instead of getting The Grand Tour showing off how great everything is even though it's hell on earth for the average package handler.

@@Ben_R4mZ not just shipping Everything from schools to construction

Maybe you should unionize and make it a requirement to understand the realities of shipping accross the ocean to make shipping plans? 🤔

In every industry forever there is always stupid management in an office that are completely clueless to the conditions at production lol

Thanks for the tips!

@Bill Sawyer which terminal is that, Bill. And time stamp on the vid? Cheers

I was looking for this comment

Thanks!

If a container is taken off a ship by accident and the ship leaves it you get into all kinds of crap with Homeland Security. You have to get all the I's dotted and all the t's crossed before it can go anywhere. Can cost thousands of $ in fines. Also if a ship is running behind due to engine issues or sea state, maybe going to miss its Canal time they will do transloads. That entails taking cargo off at a different port, having a ship come in and pick it up, and take it to its correct port. And sometimes they just dump everything on the port they're at and everyone has to go pick it up from that terminal. We had a surprise one weekend when a ship came in and they decided to offload an extra 500 empty containers we were not expecting that couldn't to go to New York for some reason. Containers loaded onto and coming off of ships are entered in a computerized system. We have a touchscreen in the machines doing the work. We enter the number as it comes to us so we know where that container is located. None of these containers were in the system so instead of having them pop up after you enter a few numbers you had to put all the numbers and letters for each one in the system. I got a call and they asked me if I wanted some OT so I sat in a pickup and just entered numbers. It may not sound like a lot from people unfamiliar with Terminals and Port work but that's a lot of ghost boxes to show up. Takes up quite a bit of room

Thanks watching and commenting on the video it helps a lot!

Thank you

Yes it is. the interest, the excitement helps balance out the stress.

True but there is a lot of time at sea so small repairs keep the crew occupied and make sure the ship is in it’s best condition during an emergency.

Thanks, I will try my best to put out more videos in the future.

Yeah, each hatch has corner locks for gantry crane to lock in and lifted to shore, put back on ship just like lifting containers but slower and more carefully :))

We get one of the more burly stevedores on the yard to take a prybar and pop it open.

I will try to slow down a bit. That is what my film teacher told me.

ON please do NOT slow down. The cadence is the best part

That is a good question. I am not sure exactly how they would do it in that situation but there is always the ability for them to limit double handling.

It depends on where the containers a group of containers could be put in one place because they will be loaded to one destination limits double handling or the chance for it. Yes containers can have different heights.

There are two main container heights for these ISO containers (there are technically many heights available, but more than 90% are these two): standard of 8.5' and high cube of 9.5'. Each bay will have an overall height limit. Example: A bay may be able to have 7 standard containers above deck and if it has at least one high cube it can only have 6 total containers stacked. So high cubes may be stacked together but they can't always as depends on where they are going, weight, hazmat restrictions, etc so that is why you see slight variations over the towers of what appear to be similar containers.

Short answer: main reason is stability, secondary is container destination.

@@pthomas314 thank you, this was the answer I was looking for

yes I pronounced it wrong

You are the first one to comment about it

There can be different container heights that can lead to the difference in height

You may find some bays empty and the some full this is because of trim and stability. This includes all kinds of stresses a ship is subjected to.

I am sure nowadays they have a lot more digitalization so should be the case. Depends every port does some things a little differently.

to some extent yes

depends on the port, some in Asia can lift more than one at a time.

Some port can loads 20of four 40 of two

Good Question, that I am not to sure about but I am sure there are ways to minimize double handling.

the ship will take on ballast to lower the center of gravity, or they will segregate a bay for Singapore, or a combination of both.

@@Mostlyharmless1985 Thank you. I had this same question.

The ideal plan is to stow only the same port at a particular bay. This solves a lot of problems. For example, bay 02 only stow SGP containers, bay 06 only GIB containers and bay 10 only RTM containers and repeat. You want the quay cranes to be stationary (working on the same bay) as much as possible as gantrying left and right to load/discharge a few containers from many bays wastes time. If this is not possible, the light RTM containers can be stowed at the top tier underdeck, or stacked on top of each other in the middle rows (eg 00, 01, 02). However this creates another problem as at ports before RTM, the crane operator would have to hoist loading/discharging containers at the ship's seaside over a tower of RTM containers in the middle. I'm an ex-stowage planner for the port of Singapore, BTW 😊

@@NANICU Thanks for your detailed reply. I really enjoy the details of cargo operations.

I think I depends on the company some might but I do know that APL does not since 2013. www.joc.com/maritime-news/container-lines/apl/apl-abandons-53-foot-ocean-containers_20130315.html

53 ft containers are only used domestically in the United States and Canada based on regulations and roads capable of dealing with them. It is possible to send the 53 ft container on a marine ship but it's going to be treated like a piece of random cargo. To stack containers, they must be the same length (2x20=40). Containers also need to be able to support the weight of all the containers above them, and 53 ft containers are not rigid enough to survive ocean traffic.

they are tied down with lashing equipment

not so great a pre calculus

yes

Ah yes I did pronounce some of the words wrong realizing afterwards, my apologies. Although I did leave a link to source down below none from wiki.

Yes but the other way around good catch

@@ON-YT also while I have your attention, every time you say stowage it sounds like a kid trying to say storage but can't enunciate the r, it's hilarious

@@Alex_Alex-Alex yes that quite funny 😆. Although stowage is an actual term in shipping

@@ON-YT yeah when I first heard it I actually googled it to make sure😅😅

yup

Wow that is cool. Yes 2 20' containers (6.096 meter) will fit under a 40' (12.192 meter) container

@@ON-YT Sorry that I was unclear and maybe a stupid question. But does 2 20' fit on top of a 40' container?

@@edmundengland yes that would fit

@@ON-YT I'm happy to hear that you sounded postive to have a container port as the setting for my board game.

@@edmundengland yeh it is not something I hear often. And a interesting idea.

thanks for telling me