The emptiest container ship I have ever seen!

[tillergirl]

Image9 by Roger Gaspar, on Flickr

Bit distant but it is empty. Is that a sign of the state of the world at the moment?

 

[Biggles Wader]

If it is completely empty that is usually because it is either going for a drydocking or its going for sale/scrap.

 

[tillergirl]

Well it isn't completely empty and it would hardly be moored there on the container berth - well I hardly think it would be parked there. It would be nice if they had fetched an empty ship to receive all our exports ?

 

[sailorman]

Image9 by Roger Gaspar, on Flickr

Bit distant but it is empty. Is that a sign of the state of the world at the moment?

only 2 cranes serving it too

 

[johnalison]

It shows a collapse in our industry of exporting empty containers to China.

 

[tillergirl]

Oh yes. Hadn't noticed that. It is the Vuoksi Maersk built in 2018 due to go to Bremerhaven.

 

[Kukri]

Image9 by Roger Gaspar, on Flickr

Bit distant but it is empty. Is that a sign of the state of the world at the moment?

Three possibilities:

a) next stop drydock, for her 30 months docking (but unlikely in Europe)
b) about to be delivered to a new owner (but unlikely as she belongs to Mr Moller and she is only two years old)
c) she is changing route (much the most likely).

 

[tillergirl]

Ah. So our economy is still fine then.

 

[bottomlesspit]

Apparently there is subsidence at that end of the docks meaning the cranes are restricted use, hence no large container ships going in at that end...

 

[Slowboat35]

The emptiest containership that ever did weigh
sailed out of Harwich on a windy day

She was built in a busier time
hauling boxes for a shipping line

Her skippers half Dutch and the Chief's a Scot
a crew of eight is not a lot



anyone care to continue?

 

[LONG_KEELER]

The emptiest containership that ever did weigh
sailed out of Harwich on a windy day

She was built in a busier time
hauling boxes for a shipping line

Her skippers half Dutch and the Chief's a Scot
a crew of eight is not a lot



anyone care to continue?

If it had been a tanker
It would be stuck under anchor

 

[johnalison]

And of that eight, six were girls,
The skipper preferred blond fellows with curls.

 

[tillergirl]

It is still there and is gradually filling. Perhaps our economy does work.

 

[Aquaboy]

last time I sailed past that end there were a load of diggers and dumpers working just seaward of the two cranes. It seems to be a regular birth for that ship, been in and out all summer.

 

[Aquaboy]

this was back in August

 

[Slowboat35]

It seems to be a regular birth for that ship, been in and out all summer.

One can only marvel...

 

[STOL71]

Ships sailing in ballast - the bell weather of the economy.

 

[biffandkatie]

She's on a weekly run between here and Bremerhaven.

 

[Aquaboy]

She has been known to park the other way around!