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The highly specialized role — in which a pilot temporarily takes control of a ship from its regular captain — is coming under the spotlight this week. But in the end, maritime experts say, there was likely nothing the pilots could have done to stop the 95,000-ton ship from ploughing into the bridge. “A ship's captain is a general practitioner, if I was to use a medical term,” Post said. He or she would be assigned to one ship leaving a port, Post said, and then disembark to board a second, inbound ship. “They had very little time from the start of the incident until the time they were upon the bridge," Post said.
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Over the past few years, supply chain woes have repeatedly come into the spotlight. Since then, global integrated supply chain systems just seem to keep getting disrupted — be it by the COVID-19 pandemic or Russia's war in Ukraine. The domino effect is due to the "just in time" model that supply chains have been relying on for decades. Here are three key reasons why supply chains just seem to keep screwing up in recent years. Examining ongoing conflicts in the Black Sea and Red Sea respectively shows how geopolitical conflicts affect global supply chains.
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Dali, the 984-foot-long cargo ship that collided with the Baltimore Key Bridge, is considered a standard size. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementDali — the cargo ship that collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on Tuesday measures 984 feet in length. It sounds massive, but that's just the regular size for such vessels these days, a veteran ship's officer told The Conversation on Tuesday. "That's about standard size these days," Allan Post, who is now the deputy superintendent at Texas A&M University's maritime academy, told the nonprofit media outlet.
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