What the Ship (Ep 113) | Maritime Revival | Russia | Seafarer Abandonment | Tankers | Containers
What the Ship (Ep 113) | Maritime Revival | Russia | Seafarer Abandonment | Tankers | Containers
What the Ship (Ep 113)| US Maritime Revival vs China Dominance | Russia Claims on Ursa Major Sinking & Rescue, plus Eagle S Seizure | Seafarer Abandonment | Tanker Sector | Container Sector and US ILA Labor Strike
December 29, 2024
In this episode, Sal Mercogliano—a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant…
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Just found your channel and like your stories.
Australua restarting its shipping?
Thank you
Info on USA carriers cashing out of shipping hurts states and our government!
Lame street media ignores these stories !
History lost to ignorance , bound to repeat it !
Ship building is a 3D (Dirty, Dangerous, Difficult) industry, that means it will incurred losses during global economy downturn and various industry innovation. Why US want to involve in such 3D industry when they can use oil-dollar to robbed other country with US rating agency that rated junks bond as AAA?
The explosions were caused by the limpet mines attached to the outside of the Hull in Lisbon and remotely detonated in the Med from the Norweigan vessel .. the first explosion caused the hole 20 cms below the waterline that started the starboard list the 2nd explosion knocked the steering rudder out and the third explosion happened to hurry up the sinking.. it was a text book case of how to sink a Ro'Ro carried out by Nato and Mossad special ops to stop Russia setting up a new port at Tobruck because russia has to leave Tortus in Syria. Last week the 'Yantar' a russian research vessel dived on the Ursa Majir wreck so now the russians know for sure what happened to their cargo ship and the extent of the sabotage and what xaused the death of their two seafarers.. Cap Sal can give us his Nato opinion as much as he likes but the truth is out now (29/01/25)
And the russians are mad as Hell! so all shipping and undersea cable minders had better watch out now
I don't think I even heard you mention the Belt and Road initiative, or New Silk Road. China is going into poor 3rd world countries and building these massive shiny ports and Rail hubs spreading money around like it's candy. Building a transportation hub around the globe.
But on your point. Of course china is doing what they're doing. It was handed to them on a silver platter. It's way way way to late to do anything about it. What are we going to do start making huge shipyards again? I can see it now. The Newport RI Ship Building Company. Even the Brooklyn Navy Yard is full of nothing but tech startups. We won't have immigrants to do the shipyard jobs that Americans don't want anymore. I'm sorry, but the wheels are in motion. The American Century has passed. We handed it to china so that the USA has a handful of billionaires and everyone else doing what? I don't know. I do know there's no stopping the change that's coming.
Shipping stuff across the world is such a waste of resources. The energy abundance is going to end
tradeclear AI fixes this. Maritime Revival and Seafarer Abandonment.
Thanks!
I used to volunteer at a Seaman's Center, helping to place long distance phone calls for the seafarers calling their families back in the day. These men are very down to earth, nice people from such countries like the Philippine's, India, Ukraine (to name a few). Their lives are very difficult. We got to go on a ship once, it seemed old, and it smelled like fuel throughout. No frills, very industrial environment. Amazing they live for months on these ships at sea. I got a really good appreciation for what they do and who they are.
Great commentaries Captain Sam.
Fantastic informative assessment of the current state of maritime shipping; but, like almost all US managerial analysis is almost completely void of insightful data analytics, modeling, solution strategies — things available since at least the 1980's.
This reminds me of the First assistant engineer, my ship left in a Spanish Port after he was fired. He didn't have his passport when he boaded , they were short-handed and sailed with him.
Could you make a video about port automation? I cannot really understand it.
Thanks Sal. You’re the best.
Yeah UK politicians purposely sunk the shipbuilding industry and merchant marine
Sal, keep it up. Great work! From the Inland Empire (eastern Washington).
Re the labor dispute on the East Coast: fighting automation is an historically losing battle. If labor "wins," the ports that don't automate suffer a disadvantage in competition… so labor, at those ports lose jobs, anyway.
About ship building-Like everything else you could probably find that economists sold the idea that profits will be better if we outsource. Nobody ever talked of what happens when the skills are lost.
Imagine my surprise that a Ruzzian Report makes no sense! After all it was written by the Political Officer.
Thanks but you have used the word ‘tends’ which is akin to saying ‘should’ or ‘shall’ in legal terms, meaning you are drawing conclusions on possibilities. I like your vids and am subscribed but to me it seems like a bit of spin. Take care
Surely your dismissal of the need/ability to get into the hold for an inspection is wrong! The article says above the water line which would mean in any vessel I’ve been in, merely means looking over the side.
The monitoring gear found on the Eagle S. is what anyone with half a memory would expect, The merchant ships of the USSR virtually ALL had a forest of aerials and were assumed to monitor, all also had large crews, with qualified medical personell (which was occasionally on the spot when some other nations seafarers needed help) — as well as a commissar, and often more than one football team among their crew
I love you vids Sal, but wouldn’t an external emergency inspection be throwing a dingy or another such small craft over to check the hull? I’m no mariner so I apologise if I’ve misunderstood or used the wrong terminology
Sorry it if stings countries like Liberia or Cook Islands or Panama, but the flagging of vessels to countries of low regulation, low tax, and low transparency has become a problem that the REAL nations of their owners need to put an end to. It is easy to thumb one's nose at the Russians' or Iranians shadow fleet activities, but they are just running plays from the same playbook as the nations of the west with their corporate interests. It is all a race to the bottom: the issue of environmental emissions (be it smokestack or sewage dumping), the issue of security for vessels in dangerous areas/war zones goes back to it, the issue of exploited or abandoned seafarers because their ship follows the laws of "????" (the law of the jungle, basically), and even the issue of who is building ships and can they even be bothered to take responsibility for what happens if it is in a shipwreck. And that does not even touch the double standards / hypocrisy of sanctions.
A world maritime conference would be good where at least the major seagoing nations (the real ones, not the fronts & proxies) could settle a lot of these issues by removing the element of allowing shipping firms and so on to benefit from a system which is not transparent or honest. It is time to cut the tax & regulation dodging jurisdictions from the equation, because it has gotten absurd. Unfortunately, such a conference would be like more like a peace conference, because the world really is in a slow-burning WW3 – major and medium powers are all trying to fuck with each other, using various proxies, and that definitely includes the murky world of civilian shipping.
Sal, the plight of seafarers being abandoned might hinder recruitment into the trade. Granted those from the United States might be okay, but for a young person deciding on a trade that remote possibility might weigh heavily in their decision. Thank you.
A lot of these Seafarer when joining & signing Ships Articles also have their passports seized & locked in the Captains safe on
that Vessel. These Crew Members become Stateless Entities & have no Maritime Trade Union to full back on or to up hold their rights & are captive slaves to these greedy Shipowners. World Trade is still under this Maritime law & still operates under this System known as the UCC & has been standard opertations since the Merchant Ships were made of wood.
Enjoyed this very much. Things I never knew about shipping are fascinating!
Thanks, Sal!
china isn't taking over.. it took over
Thank you SAL 👍
UN should protect sea farers because no world agency to protect sailors that is UNACCEPTABLE 🤬
🇺🇸 destroying the Nordstream with no real investigation independent began the problems with Baltic Sea.