by Tec Container | Jul 22, 2022 | Container terminal safety, Curiosities
Last year Port Skills and Safety published a report gathering data on Port Industry Accidents in the UK, ranging from 2014 to 2020. More than 40 companies, members of PSS, took part in this study, allowing a rough estimate of the main causes of accidents in Ports of...
by Tec Container | Aug 2, 2021 | Curiosities
¿What is a Strait? According to the Wikipedia a strait is a naturally formed, narrow, typically navigable waterway that connects two larger bodies of water. Most commonly it is a channel of water that lies between two land masses. As being able to transport goods...
by Tec Container | Jun 29, 2021 | Curiosities, Sustainability
The freight shipping industry is experiencing the largest increase in containers lost at sea for seven years. More than 3,000 containers fell into the sea in 2020, and more than 1,000 have fallen overboard so far in 2021, Bloomberg reports. There are a series of...
by Tec Container | May 6, 2021 | Curiosities
Moving goods on major maritime transport routes has been creating many problems in recent months for companies’ logistics departments. The cost of maritime transport has tripled since Europe came out of lockdown, and the market has ruled out seeing again the low...
by Tec Container | Mar 26, 2021 | Container, Curiosities
From the appearance of the first units in the 50s to the present day, a great variety of maritime and multimodal containers have emerged as a response from the logistics chain to ensure the correct handling of loads. Important points to keep in mind: -The size and...
by Tec Container | Sep 29, 2020 | Container, Curiosities
DID YOU KNOW? TEU IS KING. An estimated 793.26 million TEUs were handled in container ports worldwide in 2019. TEU history is one of the most successful steps in international trade of all ages. But what is exactly a TEU and why is so relevant? 1 TEU is twenty-foot...
