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🚉 London North Eastern Railway (LNER) is a UK railway company based in York. LNER employs around 3000 people and serves the whole east coast route from London to Aberdeen and Inverness. 🚃 Discover how LNER developed a #bowtie to be used as both a risk assessment and a project plan. In case of a strike, the company has two weeks to organize contingency operations. Learn how they use bowties to ensure operations are just as safe as during normal operations. Read all the details in the full case study 👇 #BowtieMethod #Rail #RiskManagement #OperationalRiskManagement #Enablon #WoltersKluwer

The Baltimore bridge collapse highlights the risk larger vessels pose for supply chains and an infrastructure that did not anticipate their size, writes Capt. Rahul Khanna, global head of marine risk consulting, Allianz Commercial. “Container ship capacity has grown in size by around 1,500% in the last 50 years, but it is important to note that the Dali isn't anywhere near as large as the biggest vessels now hauling goods around the world,” he writes. “Back in the 1970s when the Francis Scott Key Bridge was built, container ships would have been less than half its size.” https://bit.ly/4aIU8TF #KeyBridgeCollpase #ContainerShipping

Very interesting insides on marine business and the risks of growing shipment demand.

The Port of Baltimore is reopened from the bridge collapse. How much cargo will return? Following the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in March, which tragically killed six construction workers and severed vessel access to the Port of Baltimore, cargo diversions to ports in Virginia and Georgia ensued, causing substantial economic losses. After eleven weeks of repair efforts, the Fort McHenry Channel reopened, restoring full operational capability to the Port of Baltimore. Maryland Governor Wes Moore announced the port's reopening, though Executive Director Jonathan Daniels anticipates it will take until 2025 for vessel counts to fully recover. Despite this, the port is seeing a resurgence in bookings, indicating a positive trajectory for its recovery and economic vitality. #BaltimorePortRecovery #KeyBridgeCollapse #MarylandEconomy #ShippingIndustry #InfrastructureRecovery

The light at the end of the tunnel for the Baltimore Port as it is set to be re-opened next week sometime. Incidents like these can significantly disrupt logistics operations by delaying shipments, causing rerouting of cargo, and potentially leading to increased transportation costs. Such events can also strain resources as logistics companies scramble to adjust plans and communicate with clients about delays. The ripple effects can impact supply chains globally, especially if the incident affects a major shipping route or hub.   #BoltimorePort #LogisticsNews #Logistics #CargoUpdates

9/27/24 Ft Worth, TX-With the ILA getting ready to start walking off the job at midnight. Much freight has already been diverted through the Westcoast. Specifically POLA/POLB. Both BNSF, and Union Pacifc, have stepped up to the plate, it appears to handle this increase in traffic. As evidenced below at Tower 55, UP, had a decent parade of IPI (Inland Point Intact) traffic, heading EB. Here was one such train. Long ,slow, and stacked.. P.S. If your fondness of the industry goes beyond the business aspect. Tower 55 should be on your list of locations.

Please read and share this damning article in the The Washington Post. Concerns over the vulnerability of the #FSK bridge (and others) were raised years before the #Dali incident and ignored. Dropped from agendas without, it seems, the true risk ever being properly assessed. Quick and relatively inexpensive measures could have been taken to mitigate the risk and almost certainly prevent the collapse or catastrophic damage to the bridge, the very day concerns were raised. A long term solution would undoubtedly be in place today, if these warnings were heeded, and the Dali and her crew would likely be sailing the seas again, repairs complete and the unfortunate 'brush' with the outer protection of the FSK bridge all but a memory. The Dali's crew have been vilified by local authorities, many in the media and, as a result, by many onlookers. They are being held against their will and isolated from the outside world without any indication that charges are forthcoming. The crew of the Dali are NOT responsible for the FSK Bridge collapse. A ship's crew should have a reasonable expectation that the infrastructure in a port is capable of withstanding unintentional (and relatively minor, in this case) contact by their vessel. Please share this article. It is important that we support the Dali's crew and spread the word that they are NOT the villain in this piece. My thanks to Pablo Rodas-Martini for bringing this article to my attention. https://lnkd.in/g8hTFkXn

On March 26, 2024, the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, collapsed after a large container ship, the Dali, collided with one of its supports. The incident occurred after the ship lost power and issued a mayday call. Six people, who were part of a construction crew working on the bridge, are missing and presumed dead. The Dali, a 985-foot-long (300-meter-long) vessel, was chartered by Maersk and carrying Maersk customers' cargo. The ship was headed to Sri Lanka after leaving the Port of Baltimore. It had planned to steam east across the Atlantic Ocean and past the southern tip of South Africa before entering the Indian Ocean. According to the American Pilots’ Association, the ship underwent a “complete blackout” at approximately 1:20am (05:20 GMT), just minutes before the bridge collision. In response, the pilot immediately ordered the rudder hard to port to keep the ship from turning right and ordered the port anchor be dropped. An inspection of the Dali last June at a port in Chile identified a problem with the ship’s “propulsion and auxiliary machinery.” The vessel was also involved in an "incident" at the Port of Antwerp in Belgium in 2016, where it suffered "sufficient damages in the stern and transom." The collapse of the bridge has disrupted the flow of traffic in and out of the Port of Baltimore, one of the busiest ports on the East Coast. The search for the missing workers has been called off, and the focus has shifted to recovering their bodies and clearing the wreckage. In conclusion, the Baltimore Bridge Collapse was a tragic event that resulted from a series of events, including a blackout on the container ship Dali and a previous incident at the Port of Antwerp. The incident has had a significant impact on the region, both in terms of the tragic loss of life and the disruption to the Port of Baltimore. #baltimore #maryland #bridgecollapse #dali

#LUAShipping | #Baltimorebridge collapse: Challenges ahead for US East Coast ports No #pollution reported; initial damage estimates to vessel and #bridge exceed $500,000, says NTSB Drewry Shipping Consultants Ltd, #Baltimore #FrancisScottKeybridge #NationalTransportationSafetyBoard #NTSB #PortChallenges #DALI #Drewry #shipping #PortLogistics #BaltimorePort #CargoManagement