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Singapore - the Foynes of the East

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    lostexpectation
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    and what does foynes look like


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    parsi
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    lostexpectation wrote: »
    and what does foynes look like

    A bit smaller, a tad colder.


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    Slice
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    There's always lots of ships parked off the coast of Singapore and they're not hidden because you can see them if you're flying into the city. It happens to be the busiest port in the world, I suspect this is a tad sensationalist


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    AlekSmart
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    I suspect this is a tad sensationalist

    Just a tad perhaps....:rolleyes:

    A somewhat more lucid perspecitive might be gained by trawling through the boring ol figures of the Baltic Dry Index...which gives statistical info on the actual state of World Commercial Shipping....and it`s not lookin too good either.... :o


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    amacachi
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    "The cost of sending a 40ft steel container of merchandise from China to the UK has fallen from £850 plus fuel charges last year to £180 this year."

    How much would these fuel charges be I wonder.


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    SeanW
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    Nostradamus wrote: »
    This is getting almost no media coverage:

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    The 'ghost fleet' near Singapore. The world's ship owners and government economists would prefer you not to see this symbol of the depths of the plague still crippling the world's economies

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1212013/Revealed-The-ghost-fleet-recession-anchored-just-east-Singapore.html#ixzz0RTpF5sUD
    I don't see the problem: all those superfreighters did was carry stuff from places the 1st world has a major trade defecit with, using oil imported from people who don't like us very much in the Middle East, and with whom we have another major trade defecit.

    That was never going to go on forever and we *obviously* didn't need all that stuff because noone (in the developed world at least) has died as a result of the reduction in shipments, and most of us still live in (relative) comfort.


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    dermo88
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    There are about 60 or 70 ships off the coast of Singapore at any one time normally. The difference is that these vessels are off the South Coast of Malaysia near Johor Bahru, and this is being covered up to a degree. Singapore does not want it widely known, since its lifeblood is its port.

    It is .....nevertheless that I do indulge in Schaudenfreude towards the Green Lobby. You wanted us to reduce our carbon footprint.

    Well...by God, we sure are reducing our carbon footprint.

    We were made feel guilty for spending on necessities, such as getting to work and commuting, and taxed to death for doing so.

    Then when we switch to greener methods, they neither provided adequate infrastructure, and even worse, decided to raise public transport fares by 10% in a deflationary environment.

    Heads you win, tails we lose. A plague on both the houses of Clarkson and Westontrackonomics. Welcome to the green house carbon footprint casino. Ensuring that you pay, pay and pay again.

    As for Foynes, the largest ship it can accomodate weighs around 30,000 tonnes. Relatively speaking, thats tiny on the global shipping scale. Singapore can accomodate up to 250,000 tonne vessels.


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    D'Peoples Voice
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    Nostradamus wrote: »
    This is getting almost no media coverage:

    article-1212013-06435781000005DC-710_634x403.jpg


    The 'ghost fleet' near Singapore. The world's ship owners and government economists would prefer you not to see this symbol of the depths of the plague still crippling the world's economies

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1212013/Revealed-The-ghost-fleet-recession-anchored-just-east-Singapore.html#ixzz0RTpF5sUD


    that story reminds me of this
    A new survey finds that 2,300 planes - 11% of the world’s total - are now parked in storage.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124027676645937525.html
    The airline industry has grounded more than 11% of its jets in dusty airplane boneyards, mostly in New Mexico, Arizona and California. Planes from all corners of the world end up here, but U.S. airlines have led the way, clipping the wings of 800 aircraft since mid-2008, according to London-based Ascend Worldwide Ltd. That's a fleet far bigger than AMR Corp.'s American Airlines' 626 jets (plus 47 in storage).

    More are coming -- jets are being parked at a rate of about 30 per month this year. And the drop in international business travel has prompted the mothballing of wide-body jets.


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