Maersk Madrid first trip into Felixstowe

[sailorman]

http://gcaptain.com/madrid-maersk-makes-european-debut/

 

[Simonpk]

& the bigger OOCL Hong Kong, due in a couple of weeks.

 

[Tomahawk]

What a wonderful economy we have..

Buying everything from China and convincing ourselves we are sooo clever because everyone now has a degree in Meeja studies.

 

[sailorman]

What a wonderful economy we have..

Buying everything from China and convincing ourselves we are sooo clever because everyone now has a degree in Meeja studies.

we are good at exporting






MT boxs

 

[Poignard]

Can you tell us, Sailorman, whether ships leaving Felixstowe are as deeply laden when they leave as when they arrive?

 

[wingdiver]

There's a good chance that vessels leaving Felixstowe have more than their usual number of empty containers currently as, according to recent reports, the landside at the port is currently storing 10,000 empty containers belonging to the recently collapsed Hanjin line, with no immediate prospect of shifting them.

 

[Champagne Murphy]

Can you tell us, Sailorman, whether ships leaving Felixstowe are as deeply laden when they leave as when they arrive?

Usually looks as though they are carrying empties back to the bottle bank

 

[sailorman]

There's a good chance that vessels leaving Felixstowe have more than their usual number of empty containers currently as, according to recent reports, the landside at the port is currently storing 10,000 empty containers belonging to the recently collapsed Hanjin line, with no immediate prospect of shifting them.

Also charges apply for land side storage & i believe one reason for ever larger capacity ships to store MTs as its cheaper than ashore.
No doubt Minn can through some light on the subject

 

[Kukri]

Also charges apply for land side storage & i believe one reason for ever larger capacity ships to store MTs as its cheaper than ashore.
No doubt Minn can through some light on the subject

You called?

Nine out of ten containers arrive in the UK laden and return empty.

The biggest containerised export from the UK by volume is waste paper, which fills up almost half of the ten per cent of containers that are not empty outbound.

Yes the collapse of Hanjin has put pressure on storage. I was for some years on the board of Felixstowe Port Container Services, which repairs and stores boxes, but no longer, so my information is not up to date. I can however say that storage space at Felixstowe fills up fast and we run out of it. A lot of the problem has been ships "cutting and running" - sailing before they can take a good load of empties, in order to try to recover schedule delays.

But containers are not the whole picture. The nation's steel stockholders are awash with Chinese steel including cold rolled coils and rebars and scaffold poles. We are practically out of storage space. In the past two years my outfit has exported a closed paper mill from Kent and the Fords Dagenham car production line - and not a lot of anything else...

 

[sailorman]

this was leaving Felixstowe on 25th may

 

[Kukri]

this was leaving Felixstowe on 25th may

She is SO empty that one might think she was heading to drydock but for the fact that nobody drydocks in Europe these days and the paint on the boot top looks to be in very good nick.

So yes; she was cutting and running.

 

[Poignard]

Laden with "invisible exports"

 

[sailorman]

Laden with "invisible exports"

Bitcoins

 

[Richard10002]

this was leaving Felixstowe on 25th may

There might be a reason for getting it MT... perhaps on the way to a dry dock or similar?

 

[sailorman]

There might be a reason for getting it MT... perhaps on the way to a dry dock or similar?

see post 11 form a well informed chap

 

[michael_w]

On another forum there was a report from a Maersk engineer who's ship was being refitted in Setubal, Portugal.

 

[Stork_III]

There might be a reason for getting it MT... perhaps on the way to a dry dock or similar?

29 days into a maiden voyage?

 

[sailorman]

29 days into a maiden voyage?

Thats what happens when you use flag a/f. 10k miles & its shot

 

[westhinder]

From Felixstowe she went to Antwerp where she stayed for over 48 hours and quite a lot of containers were put aboard. From
the tv report I've seen, she did not appear empty. Is the picture recent?

 

[Kukri]

From Felixstowe she went to Antwerp where she stayed for over 48 hours and quite a lot of containers were put aboard. From the tv report I've seen, she did not appear empty. Is the picture recent?

If she was due to pick up a lot from Antwerp that would explain why she left Felixstowe with so little. Maersk's planners do nothing without a reason - nobody wants empties in Antwerp!