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The Baltic Feeder Trade in Winter
Between Hamburg and the Gulf of Finland, the small feeder ships work an ice-laden trade that the big container lines depend on and the maritime press rarely covers.
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A day at the Norfolk container terminal, an Atlantic crossing on a Maersk box ship, shore-leave economies.
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A Week with the Suez Canal Pilots
Three years after the Ever Given, the Suez Canal Authority has rebuilt its pilotage system, expanded the southern bypass, and added a layer of caution that the masters notice in the slowness.
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The Last American-Flag Tanker Out of Philadelphia
On the Delaware River, where the Jones Act fleet has shrunk to fewer than ninety hulls, the crew of the Overseas Boston works a trade that nobody is replacing.
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The Pilot Station at the Bosphorus
On a strait that handles forty-three thousand vessels a year, the Turkish pilots board in any weather and steer ships that often do not speak their language.
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Ship-to-Ship Bunkering Off Gibraltar
At anchor in the bay of Algeciras, the fuel barges work day and night to refuel ships that never enter port — and the Rock watches a trade worth roughly six million tonnes a year.
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Shore-Leave Economies of an Indian Ocean Port
At Salalah in Oman, a port where one in three calls produces no shore leave at all, the ship chandlers and SIM-card sellers have learned to bring the town to the gangway.
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Twelve Days on a Maersk Box Ship
An Atlantic crossing on the Maersk Sembawang, from Algeciras to Newark, where the work is steady, the meals are punctual, and the bridge is mostly quiet.
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A Day Inside the Norfolk International Terminal
Twelve hours on the apron at NIT, where the cranes work to a script written in Singapore and the longshoremen read the wind off the Chesapeake.