Five days after a container ship hit a reef, clumps of oil begin washing up on New Zealand's North Island, stirring fear that the fuel could foul delicate estuaries.
Early last month, the country's most famous male vocalist, Khemarak Sereymon, was en route to a concert in the beach town of Sihanoukville when a container truck hit his car, killing two members of his entourage.
Less than a year earlier, a container ship hit the San Francisco Bay Bridge, resulting in a spill of 50,000 gallons of heavy fuel oil that coated wildlife.
If you arrest a hauler as he pulls away from a container, he might have hit five other companies' containers that night, or picked up at his own legitimate restaurant accounts.
Montague learns from past mistakes Robert Montague used to be head of Tiphook, the container business that hit the skids in a corporate governance scandal in the 1990s.
There were no reliable indices before the financial crisis, but Trevor Crowe of Clarksons says container rates were hit far harder by the crisis than those for other types of vessel.
SAN FRANCISCO — The Chinese container ship that hit the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Nov. 7, spilling 58,000 gallons of fuel, was cleared to leave United States waters on Thursday and resume maritime commerce.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7 — A California maritime agency has filed misconduct charges against the American captain at the helm of a Chinese container ship that hit the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Nov. 7, spilling 58,000 gallons of fuel and fouling 40 miles of shore.
When Boblbee introduced its monocoque backpack in the late 1990's, its molded hard shell, of the same material used in air-cargo containers, made it a hit with hikers and campers.
Shanghai has been harder hit, with container port traffic down 30-35 percent, similar to the situation in Singapore.
CoreOS's container runtime competitor rkt hit version 1.0 today and according to the company, it's now ready for production use.
