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Ship Ahoy!

davidc4430 — Fri, 24 May 2019 03:22:57 GMT

first ship in many months

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kopenhagen5 — Fri, 24 May 2019 04:43:13 GMT

Is that a Maersk ?

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davidc4430 — Fri, 24 May 2019 08:29:55 GMT

whats a maersk?

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domino-710 — Fri, 24 May 2019 08:32:57 GMT

@davidc4430 wrote:
whats a maersk?

Yes - what is a Maersk.

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martinw-48 — Fri, 24 May 2019 08:49:15 GMT

It's a grain ship.
Wallaroo has bulk grain handling facilities.
Maersk ship containers

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kopenhagen5 — Fri, 24 May 2019 09:01:18 GMT

Maersk Line is a Danish international container shipping company and the largest operating subsidiary of the Maersk Group, a Danish business conglomerate. It is the world's largest container shipping company by both fleet size and cargo capacity, serving 374 offices in 116 countries. It employs approximately 31,600, of which 7,000 are shipping crew and 24,600 processing personnel. Maersk Line operates over 786 vessels and has a capacity of 4.1 million. The company was founded in 1928.

Good pick up on the detail martin.

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martinw-48 — Fri, 24 May 2019 09:12:41 GMT

Originally it was Copper in that part of the world.
That's why it's called the copper coast.
I used to live in Adelaide and the Yorke peninsula was my favourite day trip location.
I must have visited every town and driven every road.
In my 1970 XW Falcon with it's thirty gallon tank I could drive one thousand kilometres before needing to refuel.
Eaten plenty of fish and chips with the Wallaroo jetty in the front windscreen.
Never fished off it though.
Went to Ardrossan for that

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davidc4430 — Fri, 24 May 2019 09:16:31 GMT

i know its a grain ship, we see them a lot, most look like they need to be scrapped.

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davidc4430 — Fri, 24 May 2019 09:18:39 GMT

@kopenhagen5 wrote:
Maersk Line is a Danish international container shipping company and the largest operating subsidiary of the Maersk Group, a Danish business conglomerate. It is the world's largest container shipping company by both fleet size and cargo capacity, serving 374 offices in 116 countries. It employs approximately 31,600, of which 7,000 are shipping crew and 24,600 processing personnel. Maersk Line operates over 786 vessels and has a capacity of 4.1 million. The company was founded in 1928.

Good pick up on the detail martin.

i dont think its a maersk, but i'll take a look thru the old binoculars tomorrow see if i can read the name.

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martinw-48 — Fri, 24 May 2019 09:24:05 GMT

I wasn't implying that you didn't know David

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kopenhagen5 — Fri, 24 May 2019 09:28:56 GMT

Like Martin suggests, I don't Maersk ships grain.

I just saw the colours and didn't pay attention to the rigging on the deck.

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kopenhagen5 — Fri, 24 May 2019 09:42:50 GMT

Ooops - I don't think Maersk ships grain.

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davidc4430 — Sat, 25 May 2019 01:29:44 GMT

its the Yangtze Grace with some chinese letters under the name i presume is the name in chinese

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twyngwyn — Sat, 25 May 2019 01:37:44 GMT

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:689590/mmsi:477813300/imo:9584231/vessel:YANGTZE_GRACE

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domino-710 — Sat, 25 May 2019 07:13:19 GMT