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Posted: 9/17/2009 11:57:14 AM EDT
Adds to the article I posted from the daily mail.
The Daily Mail recently made waves with a photo exposing what it called the "ghost fleet of the recession" where hundreds of ships were shown on anchor off the straits of Singapore, doing nothing except rusting: a tribute to the unprecedented collapse in world trade, the bulk of which is seaborne, and the huge amount of excess slack in shipping. Zero Hedge decided to probe this idea further, and for that we took advantage of the very useful real time ship tracker functionality provided by vesseltracker.com (any reader who has Google Earth can easily replicate these results using the following data file). The results First we wanted to show how traditionally functioning critical routes are still heavily trafficked, as can be seen by the large amount of green highlights in the following snapshots (green indicates operating ship, red denotes a ship out of spot/charter and currently unused). Gibraltar: Denmark: Red Sea (one hopes the Somali pirates do not have access to Vesseltracker): [div]Yet where it gets interesting is when one scours for comparable packets of inactivity as that captured by the Daily Mail. As a first example of just how bad it really is, we recreate the image of the Singapore Strait that is shown on the picture at the '][/span][span style='text-decoration: underline;'][span style='font-weight: bold;'][/span][/span] |
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Posted: 9/17/2009 12:03:29 PM EDT
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Ar!!!
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Posted: 9/17/2009 12:04:42 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/17/2009 12:05:57 PM EDT
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ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!
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Posted: 9/17/2009 12:06:03 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/17/2009 12:06:48 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/17/2009 12:07:54 PM EDT
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The article covers one strait with 500 ships, this one takes it further, covering 1000's of ships all over the world. Read it. |
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Posted: 9/17/2009 12:09:19 PM EDT
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Buy them up at scrap prices and recycle into whatever else you can make out of them.
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Posted: 9/17/2009 12:10:43 PM EDT
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Quoted: Buy them up at scrap prices and recycle into whatever else you can make out of them. I looked into that. The only place that scraps that would be worth it is India and the price to get them there would kill any money you would make. |
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Posted: 9/17/2009 12:14:44 PM EDT
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Buy them up at scrap prices and recycle into whatever else you can make out of them. Hell, depending upon how cheap they are to part with, aren't there a lot of coral reefs that would benefit from some extra surface to grow on? |
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Posted: 9/17/2009 12:22:36 PM EDT
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obama armada
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Posted: 9/17/2009 12:26:12 PM EDT
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they'll make a great reef one day.
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Posted: 9/17/2009 12:29:21 PM EDT
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obama armada Oh hell no.... ARFCOM Flotilla
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