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Why do some industrial projects succeed while others stall for years? The answer often lies not on land — but at sea. This article explains how the heavy lift vessel ZHI XIAN ZHI XING makes the transport of oversized cargo possible and why such ships are vital to modern shipbuilding, offshore energy, and global maritime logistics.

A ship captain I know, by the way, whom I interviewed, told me there's a very rare type of vessel in the world that few people know about. I promised to write about it.

In global maritime logistics, there are ships that are rarely mentioned in the news, but without which the largest industrial projects on the planet would be impossible. These are heavy-lift ships — floating giants capable of transporting items that cannot be dismantled, lifted by a conventional crane, or delivered by other means.

The container ship CMA CGM Jacques Saade is a vessel built for the French company CMA CGM. It is named after the founder of the company, Jacques Saade. CMA CGM Jacques Saade was launched in September 2019 and became the first ship in the «Gas4Sea» series of container ships powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Among the fast-growing European companies servicing sea transport there is a tendency to enter the West African countries. This can mean only one thing: in the near future the market of African producers can create a high level of competition for Asian countries.And confirmation of this was the emergence of two new routes from the French company CMA CGM, which will connect the European ports with the African continent.

Staten Island Ferry is the last operating line of the once vast ferry system of New York. The service was transporting people between Manhattan and the future sleeping area of Staten Island long before the bridges were built. Today, Staten Island Ferry provides a passenger flow of 22 million people a year.

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Odessa region has established a water connection with the main partners of Ukraine in the Black Sea basin.

On Wednesday, April 18, the first ferry from Norway arrived from Sevastopol, from two acquired for work on the ferry line between the Artillery Bay and the North Side. The second car-passenger ferry is still on the road.

The Ministry of Water Transport of Ukraine on April 5, 2012 approved the Regulations on Working Time and Rest Time for the Floating Staff (Crews) of the Ukrainian Sea and River Transport.

Discover the secret life of the USSR's largest cargo ship—a vessel longer than the Titanic that found a second home in America. A tale of engineering, survival, and global logistics.

In 2011, sea cargo transportation along the Northern Sea Route, the shipping line between the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean along the Russian coast of the Arctic Ocean, can reach 3 million tons, which will be a record cargo turnover since the late 1980s.

Between the Black Sea seaports of Odessa and Istanbul, freight-and-passenger transportation has been resumed. Several years ago this shipping line was serviced by the ferryboats of the UKRFERRY company, but now this function on the Black Sea will be performed by the ship Princessa Elena, which carries out sea voyages under the flag of Sierra Leone.

On 11 March, the Romanian seaport of Constanta and the Turkish port of Pendik signed a cooperation agreement in Bucharest, which provides for the launch of a new cargo and passenger ferry line between the two countries. This agreement will have a big advantage for both states — Turkish ports will become the main point of departure of Romanian goods in the direction of the Mediterranean Sea.

The Yalta Sea Commercial Port was admitted to the Association of Cruise Ports of the Mediterranean (MedCruise), said the assistant to the head of the Yalta Sea Commercial Port Selina Y. V. This event was made possible thanks to the participation of representatives of the Yalta Port in the 37th General Assembly of the Mediterranean Cruise Port Association, is timed to the development of cruise tourism, which took place in French Cannes in late November.

Yalta sea commercial port has organized from August 20, 2010 for the period of the holiday season regular passenger transportation by motor ships along the routes of suburban traffic along the Southern coast of Crimea.

As in any industrial sector, the refinement of ocean freight logistics is centered on bolstering operational performance and service quality. Productivity in this context implies a reduction in labor intensity per unit of cargo, while the benchmarks for quality include rhythmicity, delivery reliability, cargo integrity, and the minimization of transit times.