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Subject: [Leica] [LRflex] Shipping in the Channel
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 04:39:47 -0500
References: <20181211060819.72C3922008@turing.freelists.org> <57D9770D-12A1-4B2E-B294-5784F0EBEC05@gmail.com> <189728621.3416503.1544665613997@mail.yahoo.com>

Hi Frank, actually the containers are recycled.  There is a thriving
business turning them into "tiny houses", remote storage, and other
practical uses where a durable weatherproof structure is needed.

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 8:47 PM Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> 
wrote:

>  on 1 ship, there are 22 columns (?) of containers.  there are at least 1
> stack of 7 high.  Presumably, there are 10 ( pick another number?) rows.
> That is 1540 containers, above deck.  Probably well over
>  50% more below decs, for an estimate of 2,300 containers per ship.
> No wonder LA Harbor handles 44,000 containers per day......a good deal of
> those 44,000 containers do not get recycled........( sent back from whence
> they came).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard Cummer <hcummer at gmail.com>
> To: leicareflex <leicareflex at freelists.org>
> Sent: Wed, Dec 12, 2018 3:12 pm
> Subject: [LRflex] Shipping in the Channel
>
> Hello Flexers,
> Son Russell?s apartment has a seaview and I am fascinated with the ships
> passing by.
> Here are four pictures of Chinese container ships passing by.
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Hong+Kong+2018+shipping/coscoA.jpg.html
> >
> and then shift right.
> All photos with the 90 Elmarit, two on the Fuji XH1, two on the Leica M10.
> All lightlyprocessed in LR.
> Can be viewed large if you like.
> C&C always welcome.
> Howard
>
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Don
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