Showing posts with label Shipping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shipping. Show all posts

Thursday, 10 January 2008

UK Ports


see http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&om=0&msa=0&msid=102119844401171836975.0004436095e195ea75f5e&t=h&ll=52.059246,1.230469&spn=3.34373,9.558105&z=7
Aberdeen (GBABE)

Blyth (GBBLY)

Bristol (GBBRS)

Charleston (GBCHD)

Felixstowe (GBFXT)

Fishguard (GBFIS)

Fleetwood (GBFLE)

Glasgow Apt (GBGLA)

Goole (GBGOO)

Grangemouth (GBGRG)

Greenock (GBGRK)

Holyhead (GBHLY)

Hull (GBHUL)

Immingham (GBIMM)

Ipswich (GBIPS)

Isle of Grain (GBIOG)

Liverpool (GBLIV)

London (GBLON)

Portbury (GBPRU)

Sheerness (GBSHS)

South Shields (GBSSH)

Southampton (GBSOU)

Stranraer (GBSTR)

Teesport (GBTEE)

Thamesport (GBTHP)

Tilbury (GBTIL)

Warrenpoint (GBWPT)

http://www.searates.com/


Wednesday, 13 June 2007

Supply Chain personnel impact on business

Rule of thumbs for returns to be expected on cost of employment.

minimum 7-11 times salary cost.
good 20
great 40+

Container ship capacities


Emma Maersk is world's biggest ship; 397m long, beam 56m and 21 storeys between bridge and engine room and capacity to transport 11,000 containers.
Bananas -an interesting perspective on volume and product.
Single container can carry 48,000 bananas - in theory container could hold 528 million bananas in a single voyage. Everyone in UK could have banana for breakfast for almost 9 days!