
The Maritime Education Podcast
Captain Barry Sadler discusses maritime topics including recent changes to maritime practices, shipping incidents, new legislation, real life lessons from his ongoing pilotage career, hot MCA examination topics and maritime issues in general. With 40 years experience in the professional maritime field, Barry's take on various nautical and shipping matters is in depth and accurate with insightful views on all affairs maritime. If you work, watch or enjoy the sea his podcast will inform and entertain you.
The Maritime Education Podcast
The Colossal Climb: The Evolution of Containership Size from the 1980s to Today
In the world of global trade, few symbols capture the scale and efficiency of modern logistics like the containership. These vast floating warehouses are responsible for transporting 90% of the world’s goods, and over the past four decades, they have undergone a dramatic transformation in size and capacity. From the modest vessels of the 1980s to today’s ultra-large container ships (ULCS), the evolution of ship design has reshaped global supply chains, port infrastructure, and maritime economics.
Barry shares his experiences as a cadet in the 80's to a pilot today and the changes in size he has witnessed. Can they get any bigger.......?
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