Bulk ships are the mirror image of container ships: they sail for China fully laden and return nearly empty.
Factories should be going at full tilt, and container ships are normally loaded to the gills.
That will help container ships, which sometimes have to offload some cargo during the dry season.
Stay until twilight when the horizon twinkles with the lights of container ships plying the busy South China Sea.
China envisages exporting consumer goods aboard container ships to Europe and receiving LNG cargoes via the NSR.
Global Terminal, which straddles Bayonne-Jersey City border, to double wharf space so it can accommodate big container ships.
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We shouldn't be letting 95 percent of container ships come into our ports without ever being physically inspected.
They believe that, given the demands of a globalised, Internet-speed economy, container ships might soon be whizzing like speedboats.
Its container ships are less exposed to the volatility found in bulk cargo.
Nor has the White House pushed initiatives that could block incoming missiles launched by terrorists from container ships off our coasts.
It has ordered six bulk carriers from a Japanese yard and a couple of smaller container ships from a Korean one.
By 2000, container ships, jetplanes and the internet had shrunk the world even more, and the Pacific too became a trade highway.
The state of California has mandated cold-ironing for container ships by 2014.
The Port of Felixstowe has formally opened the UK's first shipping berths capable of taking the next generation of giant container ships.
It took advantage of a shift in demand towards smaller container ships.
But container ships are getting bigger, and that gives ports a problem.
Jean-Paul Rodrigue at Hofstra University believes that big container ships like the Triple E will prove their value on specific trade routes, nonetheless.
Oil spills from container ships or offshore platforms are a frequent hazard to marine and coastal ecosystems and an expensive one to clean up.
Though most of the boom is in bulk carriers, rates for container ships that carry finished products to the U.S. are up, too--as much as 30%.
The glut of new container ships is ending, he notes: the current order book is only 24% of the existing fleet, down from 60% in 2008.
The West Coast ports are clogged, so Moorman thinks more container ships carrying Asian goods bound for the Midwest and East will dock east of the Mississippi.
Ferries, fishing boats, private launches and container ships jostle for space in these crowded waterways, presided over by flocks of screeching seagulls that supply another of the city's signature sounds.
Mr Chanda traces advances in trading practices and technology from donkeys and camels to container ships and cargo planes but is just as good at pointing out deep historical continuities.
The largest operator of container ships, AP Moller-Maersk ( AMKAF ) , has such an advantage, since they own approximately half of the ships they operate.
Goods could be transferred from the big container ships arriving at the port to smaller vessels which could then reach dozens of harbours in the southern United States.
The next generation container ships coming from Asia will only make three or four stops across Northern Europe - and Felixstowe is expecting to be on their calling cards.
"We are building history as well, because it started with big container ships and we are continuing with pleasure boats for millionaires from all over the world, " says Sunreef's Rafat Lenartowski.
This lessor of container ships was trading at just 0.22 times its book value in early 2010 amid fears that its top customer, France's CMA CGM, was on the brink of bankruptcy.
Boston's vast port nestles close to the skyscrapers of the city's financial district. 1, 500 vessels come in and out of here each month, mostly large container ships carrying gas and petroleum products.
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