Delay in availability of SIEG machines from ARC

[SpringbokParticipant @springbok]

Ketan
Thank you for the info, Yes Ian they are a major hazard and just wish the damned Somalians would tow them in there must be more profit in these than piracy, but that might take brains…. not guns…
kind regards to all
bob

[Gordon WParticipant @gordonw]

Shipping containers are designed to float, a company I once worked for had one moored of a pier to prove it. After a few months they had to remove it in case it broke loose. It was not not filled with lathes tho'. ps- A fourpenny one relates to pre-decimal currency, I am fluent in both.

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

I have often wondered that if i came across a floating container far from land and it was floating as per spec. how would you get in to see what was in it? You cannot open the doors and cutting a hole in the top may be dangerous.

It always worried me going across the Atlantic that we might bump into one, as we were passed by container ships almost daily, luckily we had no bad weather.

Clive

[Gordon WParticipant @gordonw]

Clive – Fasten flotation bags to corner castings. Open doors or cut hole in top, find 20 tons of cheap cat food.

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

True story about opening containers:

In a previous life when we had a truck garage one of our customers was Freightliners. Now Freightliners had their own premises and staff but they were right idle bastich's and tried to farm out as much work as they could hence us being in the picture.

One day got a phone call, very harassed voice.

"Do you want some sugar? f so get down here ASAP with some black bags"

Shot into Wilco's got some bags and went down in the Donald.

What a hoot !!

They had pulled a Tate and Lyle container off the train, hidden it in a compound made from other containers and cracked the door open to allow some sugar to drible out but by now you have guessed what happened.

The doors just blew wide open and there was a heap of sugar all over the yard surrounded by all the local riff raff shovelling like mad [ us included ]

There were even local builders shovelling into the back of transit tippers with just a bit of plastic sheeting on the floor.

We filled what bags we had bought, shot back to the garage to drop them off and went to get some more but the local Wilco's were sold out !! Called round another customer and got some animal feed bags and went back.

When we got there there were two fire engines so hung back to see what the crack was, at least we had an excuse for being there with them being a customer. However the fire engines were just cover for the firemen fillig plastic hose reel containers with sugar.

We filled the second set of bags and left but the pile in the yard was about the same size as when we arrived.

Apparently it took all day shovelling to get a clear space to close the doors and get the container back on the train.

Oh happy days, nearly as interesting as the day they lost 20 tonnes of silver bullion.

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

There is not so many now, but for the last three years in Christchurch, since the earth quakes started, there have been thousands of containers in use, some in the centre of the city, in an area called the Restart Mall, as shops, cafes, and a bank. In other areas they are being used to shore up buildings, and protecting areas from rock falls. Ian S C

[Ketan SwaliParticipant @ketanswali79440]

At last the ship is moving. See

http://new.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/477770300

and click on live map.

Hope all goes to plan, Ships Captain, Port of Felixstowe, Maearsk, and weather willing, Port of Felixstowe shows that she is scheduled to dock at 7 am tomorrow.

Ketan at ARC.

Edited By Ketan Swali on 09/11/2013 13:47:35

[Ketan SwaliParticipant @ketanswali79440]

If you click the live map and see the exploded magnified view, the vessel seems to be doing a figure of 8. Does anyone here have any idea why that could be?

Edited By Ketan Swali on 09/11/2013 13:52:11

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Lost??

Looks like its only an hour or so away so if its not docking until 7.00am must be anchored or on a holding pattern, I'm sure there are a few old sea dogs on here who may have a better explanation.

J

Edited By JasonB on 09/11/2013 14:09:37

[OuBallieParticipant @ouballie]

'Fourpenny one' had a different meaning in our household.

Dad was always threatening brother and I with one when we wouldn't behave etc.

Must check to see how that expression originated.

Geoff – Coffee finished so into the workshop after loading bread machine.

[Martin WParticipant @martinw]

Hi

Looking at her details she is not due to dock in Felixstowe until the 10th Nov 0430 UTC. So it looks, as Jason says, she is waiting for the berth to become free.

Hope all is well with the your container.

Martin

PS Started to move slowly north.

Edited By Martin W on 09/11/2013 15:13:57

Edited By Martin W on 09/11/2013 15:17:33

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Posted by Ketan Swali on 09/11/2013 13:51:42:

If you click the live map and see the exploded magnified view, the vessel seems to be doing a figure of 8. Does anyone here have any idea why that could be?

Looking for another container that fell off ?

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

Fascinating to see so many ships in the channel.

She is 'stopped' so I guess she is just drifting around and occasionally having a burst under way to keep more or less in the same spot/.

Neil

[Martin WParticipant @martinw]

John S

Ever the optimist and still offering reassurance to those with an interest in the security of the cargo . Or perhaps its the £2 talking.

Cheers

Martin

[Ketan SwaliParticipant @ketanswali79440]

Posted by John Stevenson on 09/11/2013 15:20:10:

Posted by Ketan Swali on 09/11/2013 13:51:42:

If you click the live map and see the exploded magnified view, the vessel seems to be doing a figure of 8. Does anyone here have any idea why that could be?

Looking for another container that fell off ?

Trust you to come up with that one

[Ketan SwaliParticipant @ketanswali79440]

Posted by Graham Meek on 09/11/2013 14:55:10:

Could it be the vessel is waiting to come in with the Tide?

Has anyone been following the Maerask Triple E build, 44 weeks from design to maiden voyage, but it travels slower than other ships in the fleet as this is more fuel efficient, there will be 19 more of these constructed, so all things shortly will be on a "slow boat from China".

Gray,

You are right about the "slow boat from China" Graham. Add to this, many sailings from China have been cancelled in the past few months, and this month shipping lines are offering fewer sailings, with higher shipping costs as we near Christmas. General transit times have increased from 23 days to nearer 30 days.

Ketan at ARC.

[NJHParticipant @njh]

Ketan / John

Thanks for the link – I've just wasted half an hour playing with it! I'm almost tempted to order a machine from ARC just for the excitement of tracking its progress towards me. ( However workshop [over] full already so I guess I'd better not.)

Norman

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Posted by Martin W on 09/11/2013 16:31:53:

John S

Ever the optimist and still offering reassurance to those with an interest in the security of the cargo . Or perhaps its the £2 talking.

Cheers

Martin

No I hope everything is fine and it lands OK.

Mainly because I've just realised that some of my stuff in in this container and the next one.

[Ketan SwaliParticipant @ketanswali79440]

Thank you JasonB, Graham, Neil and Martin W. All your comments make sense.

It is just that these shipping lines seem to have a very delicate relationship with ports of call, especially when you are in need of goods which are on board that particular vessel , and we have experienced ships divert in the past to Rotterdam at last minute, if they are about to encounter problems getting into Felixstowe. So, I am keeping my fingures crossed on this one.

Thaks again, Ketan.

[Ketan SwaliParticipant @ketanswali79440]

Posted by John Stevenson on 09/11/2013 16:52:57:

Posted by Martin W on 09/11/2013 16:31:53:

John S

Ever the optimist and still offering reassurance to those with an interest in the security of the cargo . Or perhaps its the £2 talking.

Cheers

Martin

No I hope everything is fine and it lands OK.

Mainly because I've just realised that some of my stuff in in this container and the next one.

…And they cost a little more than £2.00…

[Ketan SwaliParticipant @ketanswali79440]

Posted by NJH on 09/11/2013 16:51:51:

Ketan / John

Thanks for the link – I've just wasted half an hour playing with it! I'm almost tempted to order a machine from ARC just for the excitement of tracking its progress towards me. ( However workshop [over] full already so I guess I'd better not.)

Norman

Great fun insn't it!. I have already been to the loo several times when she turned away from Felixstowe..

Now I give up after realising that it is just waiting for its turn to come in.

[OuBallieParticipant @ouballie]

Talking about high seas, reminds me of the time serving aboard the Frigate SAS President Kruger, having above decks (Top-side) out of bounds due to gale force winds..

Talk about rock and rolling.

We where all sitting in the gangways, Officers and Ratings, backs against one bulkhead with feet stretched out against the opposite one, trying to keep us in one spot.

Don't remember what the Bridge was like, but not pleasant I'm sure. Won't even think about the galley.

Those in hammocks had the last laugh though, as anyone with a fixed bunk just gave up trying to kip.

Geoff – Can't beat the navy!

[Ketan SwaliParticipant @ketanswali79440]

Posted by Graham Meek on 09/11/2013 17:22:40:

The trouble with these larger ship is that they are now being restricted to the number of ports that can accommodate them. I understand this latest fleet can only work via the Suez Canal, the draft of the vessels being too great for the Panama Canal and some west coast US ports

Just for those who may be interested **LINK**

Gray,

Great link Graham. thanks, Ketan.

[Martin WParticipant @martinw]

Gray

I am well miffed as I can't quite get that crankshaft onto my lathe !!!! There goes my chance of earning a few bob on the quiet.

Martin

PS

John S, hope your bits on the ship are all OK as well.

Edited By Martin W on 09/11/2013 18:37:17

[StovepipeParticipant @stovepipe]

Love to see Ketan fitting a 6000HP engine to Mr Stevenson's lathe without telling him ! Teach him to moan about his £2.

Dennis

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