Moving on

I’ve just checked and this morning the container ship carrying my new excavator, the CMA CGM Cedrus, is currently moored in the Yangshan Deep Water Port in Shanghai, China, where it arrived at 18.08 hrs yesterday 17 January.

It’s scheduled to depart tomorrow with its next port of call being Xiamen on its way to Singapore via Nansha and Shekou and then on to Valencia by way of the Cape of Good Hope.

I found out yesterday that the reason why nearly all the ships routing from China to Europe go the long way round rather than via the Suez Canal is because of the activities of the Yemen Houthis in the Red Sea. The shipping company Maersk has announced that it intends to start using the Suez Canal again from later this month but we will have to wait and see if other shippers follow suit.