🎡 The Maritime Games Edition - 03

Navigate the Sea of Fun with Puzzles, Quizzes, and Challenges!

Feb 08, 2024

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1- Are You Shipping Savvy?

A collage of different container ships and ports with the title 'Are You Shipping Savvy?'

The process of distributing cargo among different containers to achieve optimal weight distribution and stability on a vessel is known as ________.
A specialized container designed for transporting liquids, such as chemicals or food products, is called a ________.
The term used to describe the act of adjusting a ship's course and speed to minimize its exposure to rough seas and adverse weather conditions is known as ________.
The document that provides details about the contents of each container in a shipment, including item descriptions, quantities, and weight, is called the ________.
The area on a ship where containers are loaded and unloaded, typically equipped with cranes and handling equipment, is known as the ________.
The organization responsible for establishing international standards for container sizes and specifications is the ________.
The process of transferring containers directly between a ship and a truck or train without intermediate warehousing is called ________.
The practice of storing empty containers at designated locations to make them readily available for future use is known as ________.
The specialized container designed to carry oversized or heavy cargo that cannot fit into standard containers is referred to as a ________.
The document issued by customs authorities allowing the import or export of specific goods and specifying applicable duties and taxes is called the ________.

A rectangular image containing a downward pointing arrow and the text 'Answer Below', inspired by the ocean

Answers:

Stowage Planning
Tank Container
Seakeeping
Packing List
Container Terminal
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
Direct Transfer
Container Stockpiling
Flat Rack Container
Customs Declaration

2- Guess the stock 💰

A visually appealing fun and cartoonist image for the section 'Guess the stock', which asks to predict which container shipping company can be based on some info given in advance.

This company is a publicly held international cargo shipping company, and one of the top 10 global carriers around +5K employees worldwide. Founded in Taiwan in 1972. The current market cap is around 5.2 billion USD. Total market share is 2.5% globally according to Alphaliner.

3- Who said it?

A speech bubble with a quote from a famous person in the container shipping industry with the title 'Who Said It?'

We’ll give you quotes from the container shipping news, and you have to name the prominent person who said it.

- "We don't think Red Sea crisis will be over the day after tomorrow. Whether it'll be one, three or five months - I don't know. A political deal and a mission to protect freight vessels might bring a resolution within six months. It was important that the European Union actively supported a multinational naval coalition to protect commercial traffic in the region. Rerouting around Africa takes vessels 2-3 weeks longer, resulting in a drop of 150,000 standard containers (TEU) being transported in December compared with original expectation."

- “So, for us this will mean longer transit times and probably disruptions of the supply chain for a few months at least, hopefully shorter, but it could also be longer because it's so unpredictable how this situation is actually developing.”

- “Vessels are already avoiding the area due to the Houthi attacks and the US and UK missile strikes are unlikely to change that. The longer this crisis goes on, the more disruption it will cause to ocean freight shipping across the globe and costs will continue to rise. This means goods being delayed, or not arriving at all, and rising prices for the end consumer.”

- “Vessels that needed extra-long detours to go around Africa have now completed those journeys. The empty container shortfall that could be expected in China likely reached an apex in terms of magnitude already in mid-January. As such the momentum for rates to spike even further on account of fear of worse to come has waned. There will be an upwards momentum on new contract rates as these now also need to reflect both the added cost of round-Africa services as well as the sudden strengthening of the supply / demand balance in favor of the carriers.”