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German Ship Attempts First Navigation of Trans-Arctic Route, Made Possible By...
The Beluga Fraternity Klaus Fruhauf via vesseltracker.comIt's an auspicious first, but not necessarily a positive one: Rising ocean temperatures and melting sea ice have, over the last few years, made...
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Slime-Dispensing Hulls Could Boost Fuel Efficiency For Ships
Slick Hull A fine sheen of slime could someday cover Navy vessel hulls such as this, and cut fuel consumption to boot. U.S. Navy Slime ships ahoy! A vessel that oozes a continual slick layer of slime...
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FAA Review May Scuttle Hobbyist Inventor's Ingenious Method For Shipping Drugs
Cool Cargo Box me up and ship me out Farrar Scientific A new refrigerated cargo box for moving pharmaceutical products has attracted the likes of delivery giant UPS, but its inventor may go out of...
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Nuclear-Powered Ice-Breaking Merchant Ships Could Ply the Northwest Passage
USS George Washington The USS George Washington is one of the country's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. Wikimedia Commons Nuclear-powered civilian ships could be powerful enough to smash through...
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Researchers Call For 'Physical Internet' To Ferry Freight Through a Series of...
Foodtube Stop A series of tubes could connect grocery stores to homes and businesses, providing a food and freight pipeline modeled after water, sewer and oil pipelines. via YouTube Hungry? Better...
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New Foaming Metal Could Form Lighter Hulls For Cargo Ships
Metal Foam A new aluminum foam expands like rising bread when exposed to high temperatures. YourIs.com Reducing cargo ships' weight would be a major step in reducing the carbon emissions of the...
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Superheating the Hulls of Seagoing Ships Could Reduce Drag for...
Container Ship The container ship Olga Maersk outbound from Tilbury Docks, London. L2F1 via Flickr Along with causing water droplets to dance (which you can try at home) and protecting hands from...
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The Future of Shipping: The System of the World
Sea Change A new generation of designers is reimagining how container ships can move more things more places, more quickly. Nick Kaloterakis The basic unit of the global economy is the humble...
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The Panama Canal Gets an Update
Wide Berth By 2014, nearly a million containers a week will be able to pass through the Panama Canal. Panama Canal Authority The century-old Panama Canal has a major shortcoming: New ships are too...
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Robotic Balloon Cranes Could Turn Any Shore Into a Seaport
Tethered Air's Idea for a Robotic Balloon Crane Jeremy Wiley, Tethered Air via LiveScienceThe future of seaports could be not having any seaports at all. At least that's the vision of Jeremy Wiley,...
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"Twitching" Material Dislodges Bacteria From Ship Hulls
Barnacle Hull House U.S. Navy via FlickrWhen a horse is dislodging a pesky fly, it twitches a small portion of its skin to shake off the unwelcome visitor. Researchers from Duke University have...
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A Box With A Hidden Video Camera Documents Its Own Journey Through The Mail
From Here To There Ruben van der Vleuten Recently I found myself in need of shipping several valuable and highly breakable items, and I dreaded what would become of them after their boxes left my...
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Nicaragua Enlists China To Build An Alternative To The Panama Canal
Gatun Locks, Panama Canal 99 years old and still working. Stan Shebs, via Wikimedia Commons After a century as an only child, the Panama Canal is about to get a sister. Nicaragua announced recently...
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Planning For A Future Of Robot Ships
The container ship, reimagined Nick Kaloterakis When it comes to shipping, humans crews are inconvenient. They need places to sleep and to take care care of bodily functions, they probably require...
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Robot Truck Convoy Tested In Nevada
A Convoy Of Trucks In Afghanistan ISAF Headquarters Public Affairs Office Like Olympic skiers racing in single file to reduce air resistance, two 18-wheeler trucks in Nevada recently proved that...
View ArticleNew Foaming Metal Could Form Lighter Hulls For Cargo Ships
Reducing cargo shipsâ weight would be a major step in reducing the carbon emissions of the worldwide freight industry. Fraunhofer Labs in Germany has one possible solution:…
View ArticleSuperheating the Hulls of Seagoing Ships Could Reduce Drag for...
Along with causing water droplets to dance (which you can try at home) and protecting hands from liquid nitrogen (which you should definitely not try), the storied…
View ArticleThe Future of Shipping: The System of the World
The basic unit of the global economy is the humble container. Every year, a vast fleet of freighters hauls more than 17 million of them to destinations around the world. Now…
View ArticleThe Panama Canal Gets an Update
The century-old Panama Canal has a major shortcoming: New ships are too long, too deep and too wide to fit through it. by 2015, 40 percent of the world's fleet will have…
View ArticleRobotic Balloon Cranes Could Turn Any Shore Into a Seaport
The future of seaports could be not having any seaports at all. At least thatâs the vision of Jeremy Wiley, founder of Tethered Air. Wiley envisions a system of robot…
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