the files give rise to don't really have to go see starts january 27th. the whenever you eat a banana, prepare anava condo for try on a new pair of jeans. you should know that these goods usually come from far away, who spend weeks on the road and dark containers transported by rail by truck, but mostly on the high seas that a lot can happen on their way around the world. that's why shipping containers need to pass crash tests even better would be to avoid accidents with them altogether. also in this episode, how have containers revolutionized retail wire, crew ships, climate killers, and kind of really be green gross. the

over 50000 mega freighters traversed the world's oceans over and over again the aftermath of accidents and fires like oil spills and other hazardous substances wash up on the world shores. 3 examples from recent history. the m v. golden re b m. s. caesar and the m v. modern express researchers in the netherlands are looking into the causes and trying to find out how maritime trade can be made safer. case number one took place in the north sea of the coast of the netherlands on january 1st 2019 the 400 meters long container ship m. as caesar was passing the coast of the

netherlands in the middle of a wind force, 8 storm from the north west, with 10 to 20 meter high waves, more than 300 containers went overboard. the contents of which contaminated beaches in the region, the coast guard and the national authorities commissioned the research team at the country's maritime research institute. and the goal of their investigations is to find out what caused the container loss and how it can be prevented in the future. ringback to do this, they built a scale model of the m s. caesar, which ownership was designed to match the large parts of the complaint of ships that, that, that operates in the modern business total have expansion. but it would also have represented cargo on top of the actual ship is almost 400 meters long and 60 meters wide. here it has been shrunk to scale by

a factor of one to 63. with the wave machine in the research pool, they can simulate various currents and even giant waves. at the moment they were occurrence like those, just a few kilometers all set gotch coast. what caused the loss of so many containers, when freighters are hit by certain waves made ship, they sway along their longitudinal access and then swing back to their original position with large cargo ships. this process takes 10 to 15 seconds. and the severity of the ship wash, unfortunately just watching the roll period of the ship with the waste period of incoming waves. and of course it's a roll looks when the image, caesar squeezed back after 15 seconds. it hits the next giant wave which intensifies this way. the once more the ship probably hit the bottom slightly and the ship the whole even more intensely. that's how strong the

waves were. if i never saw high and low so shallow, the ship may have to even touch the see. but then there were the waves up to 20 meters high. that crashed against the container wall above deck to the force of the ship's impact. also, blue containers overboard. the swaying and the vibrations caused the lashings on the containers to break. lashings are middle rods that hold the containers in place on the ship, but in the event of extreme fluctuations, they can break what conclusions do the researchers reach and how can future accidents be avoided? we'll come back to those questions at the end of the report. example number 2, b, m, v golden re, it highlights just co graves. the economic and ecological damage of ship wrecks can

be the golden ray of 200 meters long car transporter was laden with 4200 brand new cars. everything seemed to be going well until the cap sized off the coast of the us state of georgia in 2019. just how safe is a ton of cargo today, is damage on the rise. these are questions best answered by an insurance expert. we have tracked this, this last has spoken last as, as we called them on chips for the last 12, the 10 years. and it has been around 65 percent decline in ships, lots, etc, in general. but the golden re accident happened anyway, necessitating a huge rescue operation. the crew had programmed the loading software with incorrect information about the load weight. in addition, patches were left open. that led to an imbalance. some of the crew members had to be freed from the ship using cutters. several fires broke out. and some of the

ships more than $7000.00 barrels of diesel leaked out. because cargo ships are getting bigger and bigger, the dimensions of each individual accident are also increasing. no incident happening on such large ships results and a lot more costly damages to the cargo. firstly, because the cargo is a lot more than it used to be. but also because the repair costs have, have increased and the complexity of salvaging, or if, if, unfortunately, the ship becomes wrecked. the removal of the requirements also are very, very stringent. the salvage the ship was towed to the nearest harbor using a floating lifting crane. that was custom made for the job. it was cut into pieces using a massive chain cupboard in diamond gust. the value of the cargo was $102000000.00

. and the value of the golden re itself was $62000000.00. but the cost of salvaging the golden rate was much, much higher. the highest amount in us history. she was the largest, but the decimal at salvage cost of the goal ration went up to upwards of $8800000000.00. case number 3, the rescue effort for distressed vessels is becoming increasingly complicated. the modern express length, 164 meters normally a car freighter. it was mistakenly loaded with logs. this caused it to list off the coast of france in 2019. at most on my own to buy, he was immediately dispatched to the rescue with his frigate setup in law. know, some of the realize pretty quickly that it was necessary to bring in special climbing professionals. that's a good luck to have been to access to the ship was extremely difficult and we

couldn't send sailors in there who had no training in climbing. no undertakes gets filled up. if you need to submit their plan. the navy was to lower specialists from a salvage company onto the ship and to attach a tow rope to the vessel. on february, 3rd, 2019 a helicopter brought the 4 person salvage team back onto the ship. the 3rd attempt to using a stretchable tow rope was finally successful. from there, the m. v. modern express was towed to the port of go about. they were able to prevent the ship from potentially bursting and leaking diesel. conclusion. what specific measures could improve the safety of merchant shipping? at the maritime research institute in the netherlands, researchers can provide some instructions for captains based on their experiments. namely, containers must be loaded strictly according to computer calculated list, assuming that the contents of complaints are in line with what's on the paper that

you get. but the complaints are stokes and positions where they are supposed to go . very heavy containers are often simply loaded on top during stop overs, but they belong at the bottom and in the middle of the ship. otherwise there was a strong risk of chipping. another lesson in bad weather coast guards need to close dangerous areas to ships well in advance. by closing off see areas and recognizing bad weather in advance, many spectacular accidents of the past could have been prevented and more could be avoided in the future. the containers as far as the i can see there, indispensable for global trade. there are 20000000 of them on the high seas every day. around 97 percent of all shipping containers are manufactured in china. how did these containers become so important for the economy?

this shipping container has come from hamburg and as being unloaded in hong kong steel boxes of this kind. now dominate the harbor landscape. they may not look pretty, but they sure are practical. they are also one of the most obvious symbols of global trade, transporting cargo across continents and to all corners of the world. never before has our dependence on international trades and so great. but few of us really know much about how the industry really works. and to run this full so the, the, the invisible connect to the big screen producers and consumers of every single part of the, of what we, what we make yourself in our everyday lives. the origin may not be complete. certain i cannot the, i cannot put as little voice in churches, but it's something like with that global shipping off of the world to good stuff.

and the other humphreys containers are actually a relatively new phenomenon. before their invention, getting goods on board was a whole lot more arduous. over c transport was anything, font straightforward frame containers change that they were invented by the american entrepreneur malcolm a claim and were used for the 1st time in 1956. the innovation provided a mass of books to the shipping industry. these days, large cargo ships can accommodate some 20000 containers. a single container can house 100 washing machines or 10000000 cigarettes. the outsourcing of cheap manufacturing has led to cargo being transported across large distances. today,

more than 90 percent of cargo is transported in shipping containers and problem and shipping concerns emissions. large vessels submitted vast quantities of c o 2 leading to wind sprint solution or is all the world's container ships for a country? they would be the 6 biggest polluter in the world. coming in just ahead of germany . the. the big flagpole is, of course, cutting absolute emissions in the shipping industry by 50 percent, by 2050. in the future. a more sustainable model could see more products being produced locally cutting demand for international shipping as a whole. but even if there is a reduction in oversee transport, the trustee fried container is here to stay the

have you ever found yourself in a crowd of taurus on the hunt for sites to see over tourism not only disturbs the locals, it's also harmful to the environment the cruise ships are particularly bad. what can be done about it? the cruise control, that's what some european cities are seeking. venice in barcelona are among the popular tourist destinations which have limited larger passenger vessels from docking downtown in an effort to reduce environmental damage and crowding of city centers. the n g o transport and environment release to study in june, which says pollution from the crews industry is increasing overall in europe. noting that cities which have blocks ships are seeing ecological benefits. and a huge surprise with that in 2019 when the most polluted cruise ship city was

venice and a 2022. it's failed below the 40 years place. and this was you indeed to them that made it a lot more challenging for big cruise ships to delta. other port cities are looking at such examples. a study by the tourist or to the dutch speaking area of belgium, visit flanders, pulled residents of antwerp bruise and get about cruise traffic and found that more than half of residents in each city believe the ships have a negative impact on their environment. are you know, allowed to is the sustainability manager for visit flanders and let the study. we met her at her office in antwerp from which you can see a doctor cruise ship from her window way across town. she said residents, major concern was emissions. so the ship is right there, you can see the whole time the air quality was really the most important one, especially also here in antwerp where there's a low emission zone that has been mentioned to lots of. so people states we live in

the low emission zone, but at the same time there is a ship ducking, which runs on very heavy fuel. in belgium, the opposition is highest in rouge, even though those ships dock, almost 15 kilometers away from the city. the most recent survey finds more than 70 percent of bruce residents want fewer crews, passengers to visit. good morning in antwerp and welcome to the principal free tours very in antwerp. however, more residents are turning in favor of cruise tourism. they like doris here, and it's not too much, i think is some see these are like 2 infinities. there are too many tours, but here it's normal for visitors. the proximity of the cruise terminal to the old town is a huge plus my 1st visit here. and i'm already impressed by the wonderful buildings we've also visited handbook, and that was a long way from the center. so this is much better to my in my opinion,

to be off the shit in the center. and the way we go last time in the city and or vice mayor for mobility in kenneth echoes that enthusiasm for the accessibility provided by the downtown terminal, which has just been renovated under his watch. they walk straight in the city. they don't need buses. they don't need the extra support for visiting the city. and that's also very important because that's a lot less evasive in the university kind of sense. the visitors are a crucial source of income for and torp, it's 6070 euro a day that they leave in the city. that's important for the city. it brings up prosperity for the city. the visits lenders research puts the average daily amount spence by an ocean cruise passenger. it just 40 years per day, going up to 66 year olds for luxury passengers. that's largely because the ships

themselves provide meals and entertainment explains money and now alert. we saw that cruise bessengers, steve a bit less than 5 hours on average in the destination that the visit. and if that's true, now, how can port cities compete with ships like royal caribbean icon of the seas setting, sale? the ship itself becomes the dest or destination built in finland by mired to go and launching from florida. in january, the largest crew ship in the world offers more than 20 restaurants, 7 swimming pools, and endless entertainment options to the potentially 7600 people on board. wired to to go ceo tim myers says this. all inclusiveness also offers the opportunity to be more environmentally conscious. we have everything on board and it's all on the system and we are able to optimize the energy consumption. for example, we have,

every time we're building prototype, this time we, we were able to reduce per head. so just that per passenger, 20 percent of the energy consumption icon of the seas will be powered using l. n, g, and fuel cell technology. it is also equipped to connects to electricity for its power needs, wind dot. that will be mandatory in european ports from the year 2030. the reason a in europe had to make it compulsory is that until now? there was new dom on some cruise ships to connect her. she'll say to a trustee. and the reason is simple is because it's a lot cheaper to power. oh you hotels and swimming pool by building a dirty fuels rather than to buy the electricity from the polt. some industry leaders are calling for carbon neutral, cruising by the year 2050. between now and then though, cities will have to make difficult decisions about who they will allow to pay visits to their ports and what that will cost them.

do you ever find it difficult to resist buying stuff and come home with way more than you intended to the one hand, it's good for the economy promotes growth and production and secures jobs on the other. the environment suffers from waste emissions and high resource consumption. can we still afford this to burn as much fossil fuels as you can create prosperity for as many as possible. and if that's no longer possible due to climate change, then simply switch to ego and sustainable. promote green growth and everything will stay the same. is this really the way to prevent climate collapse? this toby a or happy ending? the biggest polluters such as airlines, why don't you become sustainable? almost every company is committed to this, including the automotive industry. manufacturers such as volkswagen wants to become

climate neutral as do entire countries, which i've now do, i believe that managing our prosperity without any environmental impact or within the boundaries is fundamentally conceivable. and should definitely be uncle appears on the highlight of this model is that as before, growth also strength in social cohesion again, the issue of social security systems or the preservation of the welfare state of medical care systems and so on has always been solved by having more and more to distribute a tire, and that's been very successful via which is why all of the systems are now actually dependent on this growth and do some bucks to them. the button to stop the climate change and ambitious target must be met. our atmosphere tolerates a maximum of one ton of c o 2 emissions per capita per year. only a few developing countries such as the share in africa currently achieve this. the current global average is $4.00 tons in the us. it's 14.2 tons. what can be

done? and we have to de, couple these 2 factors from one another economic output and resource consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. that's still a long way to go, and it's happening thought you slowly. so function promote rail transport more than before or make sign more expensive and thus less attractive. less meat are the existing ideas we have sufficient guns designed us under this is particularly evident in the german energy transition, which is essentially not contributed to a significant reduction in c o. 2 emission exclusives and even where a supposedly reduction has occurred. and it's primarily due to a shift in production processes abroad, which are therefore emissions intensive. these sorts agencies in the industrialized nations would actually have to reduce their emissions 15 times faster than before

in order to become climate neutral. but the middle of a century, to achieve this, germany would have to produce 4 times more electricity from exclusively renewable sources. then it does today, pretty unrealistic. that's a dilemma. denver on the dilemma we currently find ourselves. and is that no political power has the courage to come cleaning and tell people that we are physically and ecologically living beyond our means. that's the fuse ecology we should go into the fate. and as a lead in the industrialized world, a drastic reduction would actually be necessary, realistically speaking, after all, they've emitted an excessive amount of c o. 2. in these countries, the economy in prosperity would have to shrink in order to prevent a climate collapsing, globe, and nation. i don't believe that we can get people to live in the most sustainable climate friendly way, much by shrinking prosperity or making losses. and that's why we have to do

everything we can to reconcile the economy and the ecology which soft onto p to another. and i can explain the problem sectors with high c o. 2 emissions, such as the chemical industry would have to produce less, millions of jobs would be lost, that could endanger social peace in industrialized countries. it, they asked us what they have available now. so the 1st step would be to think about how is smaller economy, right? so he could still be just as an affair, right. and how we could also stabilize inappropriate level of material supply. and i'm good business here and it wouldn't be very important to deal with working hours differently than as guns beach the opposite side on this on. so reducing average, working hours to afford a week, i could help to achieve full employment even under the conditions of a shrinking gross domestic product to, to, in the us to do this. um, so the people could probably keep their beloved smartphones as their carbon

footprint is relatively small. provided they stick to the most important montrose for saving the climate sharing, instead of only as with car sharing, then an industrialized country could manage with 17. the cars, sorry, no real happy ending, but no just to be either the discounts, the discounts, the discounts can special offers the trigger. a real shopping frenzy for you to scientists have discovered that discounts have the same effect on your brain. as cocaine doesn't mean is released and discounts are perceived as a kind of reward. at the same time, the pain of spending money is damping special sales days like black friday in particular. take advantage of this. would you rather save money by not shopping at all that shopping for

a big foggins black friday generates billions of dollars in profits on a single day that that's the fast some advantages to save money. if you buy things you need in terms of inflation once a month is down, retails are willing to offer bigger discounts, but shopping events like black friday can also encourage unnecessary consumption supplies, sometimes to raise prices, weeks before the sale, which means there are no real correct us with directions, according to studies, the average discount is just 5 percent. and the sales extravaganza comes with a half the price tech for the environment. research has shown that shipping and returns are responsible for tons of c, o 2 and many purchases. along with that plastic packaging and up and then so maybe participating in buy nothing day would be the best alternative. that's it for today on may vw as business magazine, about the big ships, big gross,

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