Container ship, global trade, Suez Canal, Strait of Malacca, maritime transport, Jules Verne, Le Havre, Sidney, Shanghai, Rotterdam, globalized production
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Explore the journey of container ships, connecting Europe, Asia, and other continents through strategic maritime routes.
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[...] They arrive by sea like many Europeans who wanted to know the American dream. The crew is once again composed of a majority of Filipinos. They run along the coast of the United States. And arrive at the Panama Canal. Finally, the journey takes them to Polynesia, where their cargo is the only means of supply for a large part of the archipelago. The island does not yet have the necessary infrastructure to unload the goods like in major ports such as Rotterdam, Le Havre or Shanghai. [...]
[...] The container ship will then head to Northern Europe. It makes this journey four times a year. Video The Tower It's a 200-meter container ship that makes a round-the-world trip, it has a capacity of 200 containers. It leaves from Le Havre with a lot of different merchandise such as furniture, toys, chemicals, perfume, paint. It heads to New York. It takes 7 days to link the two continents, Christopher Columbus took more than two months to reach the Antilles. [...]
[...] The salary they receive for these voyages is very high (?1,500 per month on average) compared to average salaries. The crew lives rather separately. The ship enters the Red Sea and follows the Egyptian coast before returning to the Suez Canal. Navigation there is quite complicated since the sand blows, reducing visibility, the boat needing three nautical miles to stop. The Suez Canal, which connects the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea, is a strategic area for global trade, like the Strait of Malacca, the Strait of Gibraltar, or the Bosphorus passage. [...]
