I’m interested in ocean container shipping, so I built a Google Sheets add-on to automate the process of tracking shipping containers. It’s called Container Tracker and I just got it live on the Google Marketplace. https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/container_track...
Main workload is done by the backend (serverless functions).
I am currently working on a HubSpot extension (that uses same backend) with the goal to target few other platforms where users work, and integrate the functionality into their daily workload, as opposed to having it as standalone website or mobile app. I have fun doing it.
Honest question. Shouldn't this internet banking that offer authentication as a service do it via at least mandatory 2FA for log in. I would guess that way fake bank sites would be failing?
I dont have many banking relationships, using 2 banks and there is not even a password to remember, all login is done via authentication apps.
Grok gives this as an excuse for answering "The surgeon is the boy's mother." :
<<Because the surgeon, who is the boy's father, says, "I can't operate on this boy, he's my son!" This indicates that there is another parent involved who is also a surgeon. Given that the statement specifies the boy's father cannot operate, the other surgeon must be the boy's mother.>>
Sounds plausible and on the first read, almost logical.
In my opinion, port costs never go down with automation. If anything, they go up when automation is deployed (this essentially means unmanned reach stackers, more cranes and eventually new TOS (Terminal Operating System) to compensate investment.
This is interesting document (PDF) with port performance index for 2023. Page 11.
https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/0990603241145396...
>Approximately 100% of CVEs, crashes, bugs, slowdowns, and pain points of computing have to do with various forms of deserialising binary data back into machine-readable data structures. All because a) human programmers forget to account for edge cases, and b) imperative programming languages allow us to do so.
Just because ship can carry nominal value of 15K TEUs, it is very hard to estimate how many containers are currently on board. Also, empty container looks exactly like the full container from the outside, looking at the ship.
One very interesting aspect of ship operations is the art of stowage of containers. The complexity associated with it is substantial. 3D large scale Tetris. This is a good introductory article https://www.shippingandfreightresource.com/container-stowage...
This!
I don't mind seeing some ads. In fact, they could be very useful, if they are relevant. Google knows enough about me to do this.Instead, I am regularly getting things I really don't care about, plus increased amount of videos where Roger Federer look alike is being held in cuffs. Who does that and why Google is not filtering them.
Top ocean carriers (including Maersk) are mature and well established organizations. For what concerns their core activities, that is transporting of containers from A to B across oceans, short sea and occasional inland, they are Pareto efficient [1]
The surge in the transportation services demand during COVID couldn't be resolved by additional hiring and was offset by increase in freight rates, hence the enormous profits.
They couldn't resolve surge demand by hiring, as their bottleneck was and still is the land infrastructure, sea ports, terminal (in)efficiency, inland transport to which they have little control of.
Maersk decided to become vertically integrated carrier and started acquiring various companies, including last mile delivery services, custom's brokers, air freight capacity etc. This, in my opinion, contributed to the increase in the headcount.
Other carriers followed the Maersk acquisition spree...
This. I witnessed it today. I was running out of washing powder, still keeping the old box (6.5 kg, promotional price 25.95 chf sticker). Went to COOP (CH retailer), again "promotion" of Ariel, same price, but the box is now 4.8 kg.
Excellent question to which there is no easy answer.
There is no site available that can give a price for which you are sufficiently sure you are getting competitive rate for which the shipment will be actually performed in the time needed. None.
Closest you can get is inquire via some of the ocean carriers, 4PL sites, but you have to do this carrier by carrier and yet often you don't get comprehensive number.
Pricing in this industry is extremely opaque, indices quoted here are for the most part rough estimations, representing someone's hopes and dreams.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54922374
from the article "As of 1996, about half of the countries in the OECD allowed companies to deduct bribes paid to foreign officials from their taxes, including Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand and Switzerland. They argued that such practices were routine business expenses in some countries."
One of the possible reasons for TradeLens demise is that they choose to ignore them and came up with their own data structures (Json) i.e. partners that are usually EDIFACT capable had to practically start from scratch to comply with TradeLens format.
At some point TradeLens realized that and started partially accepting EDI feeds, but it was too little, too late I guess.
Agree. I can add to this the retailers Migros, Coop and digitec.ch (amazing). We are so used to the quality of their services, that we take them for granted.
At least on my searches with Google Flights, Wizzair shows up as a carrier for EU flights.
Good search engine for low cost EU carriers is https://www.azair.eu/
Ocean carrier i.e. Shipping line in 99.9% of the cases
There are few shippers that own containers, so called shippers owned containers (SOC) but they are minority