2012-05-04
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The top ten container shipping companies by TEU equivalents, in order. Container images taken from Eiji Hoshiai’s forty-foot dry freight page. Full size image.
2012-04-09
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Container port, Long Beach, California, US. From Curating the globe, Part 1 at refractal.
2012-02-24
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“ As we drive out to the new dock wall, the car’s sat nav shows us sailing out into the Thames - the map has not yet been updated for a project that has literally redesigned the coastline of Essex. ”
Yes, it’s from the Evening Standard’s Life and Style section, but Supersize superport: London Gateway by Kieran Long is a surprisingly good read about the new container port being constructed on the Thames estuary. (via iamdanw)
(via iamdanw)
2010-01-31
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A worker walks near stacked containers at the Jakarta International Container Terminal January 13, 2010. (REUTERS/Beawiharta)
How could I fail to reblog this?
2009-04-10
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![“The spectral cranes of Felixstowe port, as seen from Trimley Marshes” at k-punk: Anticapital after containerisation.
Watching the container lorries and the ships do their work, or surveying the containers themselves, the metal boxes racked up like a materialised version of the bar charts in Gibson’s cyberspace, their names ringing with a certain transnational, blank, Ballardian poetry - Maersk Sealand, Hanjin, K-line - one never has any sense of human presence.
The contrast between the container port, in which humans are invisible connectors between automated systems, and the spectacular clamour of [the] old London docks which the port of Felixstowe effectively replaced tells us a great deal about the shifts of capital and labour in the last forty years.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/rdI4dCBFkm4red4iXWKg2Jamo1_500.jpg)
“The spectral cranes of Felixstowe port, as seen from Trimley Marshes” at k-punk: Anticapital after containerisation.
Watching the container lorries and the ships do their work, or surveying the containers themselves, the metal boxes racked up like a materialised version of the bar charts in Gibson’s cyberspace, their names ringing with a certain transnational, blank, Ballardian poetry - Maersk Sealand, Hanjin, K-line - one never has any sense of human presence.
The contrast between the container port, in which humans are invisible connectors between automated systems, and the spectacular clamour of [the] old London docks which the port of Felixstowe effectively replaced tells us a great deal about the shifts of capital and labour in the last forty years.
