2018

J3475 : The 'Ocean Crest' at Belfast

taken 5 years ago, near to Belfast, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland

The 'Ocean Crest' at Belfast
The 'Ocean Crest' at Belfast
The current 'Bangor Boat' LinkExternal link the 'Ocean Crest' Link heading along the Victoria Channel in Belfast harbour.
Shipping containers

The idea and creation of the modern shipping container can be credited to American businessman (and former trucking company owner) Malcolm McLean in 1955. Rather than wait days for ships to be loaded and unloaded he devised a simple system where goods could be packed into standardised, rugged containers - these could then be carried by road or rail but also loaded, locked and stacked securely on board ships for transport across the globe and easily unloaded at the other end. The system revolutionised modern transportation of goods, increasing efficiency, lowering costs but also costing thousands of jobs across ports around the world. Today around 90% of non-bulk cargo is carried via shipping containers. In the UK, enormous ships that can carry over 14,000 containers arrive into ports such as Felixstowe and Harwich or nearby Rotterdam. Containers are then unloaded and moved across the country by road, rail or onto smaller 'feeder' ships that can navigate other ports around the country. To understand more about the process see the BBC Box project at LinkExternal link which tracked the route of a shipping container across the globe or the excellent programme 'The Box that Changed Britain' - frequently repeated on BBC4 and thus available on the iPlayer at LinkExternal link .


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Geographical Context: Coastal Roads, Road transport City, Town centre Docks, Harbours Place: Victoria Channel Belfast Primary Subject: Boat other tags: Bangor Boat Belfast Ocean Crest Shipping Containers Hapag Lloyd Yang Ming Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Articles: · Images shortlisted for POTY 2018 Automatic Clusters: · Belfast Harbour [87] · Victoria Channel [31] Title Clusters: · The 'Ocean Crest' at Belfast [4] ·
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Rossographer   (more nearby)
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Wednesday, 17 October, 2018   (more nearby)
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Thursday, 18 October, 2018
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Irish: geotagged! J 347 752 [100m precision]
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Irish: geotagged! J 347 749
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