Sunday 4 August 2013

Ms Renata Rotterdam Timelapse

The ms Renata delivers containers to different bays at Rotterdam harbor in the Netherlands.



YouTube link

(thanks Cora)

3 comment(s):

mkl said...

I am unsure what the video reflects. Is the video of the unloading of one of the large ocean-going container behemoths, or is it merely a barge that works within a specific harbor that transports previously unloaded containers to various bays?

As justification for the latter, I can, potentially, see some sort of economic necessity existing to get the large container ships fully unloaded and on their way as quickly a possible, with the subsequent use of barges to get smaller portions of their contents to smaller, destination specific bays for to get loaded onto specific transports. Anyone?

Classof65 said...

I've been there! And I was taken to lunch with Lep Profit executives after touring their shore-side warehouse...

A container ship may carry containers for many different consignees (freight forwarding companies) and thus the necessity of off-loading into a lightener boat to deliver to each freight forwarder for inland shipping to the customer who ordered the goods inside the container.

Classof65 said...

Did I mention that we had lunch in a windmill that had been converted into a posh restaurant?