Can I ask here some questions about shipping please?

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You probably get called things because that’s probably how you come across

And here is why

You’re now claiming to do a PhD dissertation

  • You can’t do a PhD dissertation without at least a master’s degree in the same or a similar field
  • Having done a masters in the same field you should have some decent basic level of knowledge on the topics you’re doing a PhD thesis on (you can’t do a PhD in civil engineering without a masters in civil engineering
  • Most PhD students are part of the university staff and required to carve up their thesis in parts and publish scientific articles on their conclusions for that part in scientific academic journals as they progress through their dissertation
  • Having published articles and done a master’s thesis you’re assumed to be fairly familiar with what research resources are available
  • You claim you study in Romania and instead of researching Romania’s trade imbalance and looking at the traffic coming in and out of the port of Constantza, you’re trying to find a solution to the US China trade imbalance
  • In your intro you make 2 main blunders which are shameful for a PhD level student in economics:
  • you show a severe lack of understanding of macro economics and micro economics with serious lack to understand a trade imbalance as part of government deficit. You should have had those classes in during your bachelor’s or master’s
  • you think 2 days and 8hrs is “a lot of work”
    which makes you sound entitled, dumb and lazy

if you would have formulated your question along the lines of
i’m trying to look into how many containers are moving between US/China ports and i’m having trouble finding some adequate resources, can someone point me in the right direction, then your thread would have probably been filled with responses as people here are generally quite happy to help other people

but if you put forward a lazy, dumb and entitled demeanor, well you can see the result for yourself

Good luck with your study project, I’ve given you enough proper leads to work with and you sound like an entitled unappreciative person, so I’m tuning out of this convo.

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NO NO NO youve got it all wrong. Most of the PHDs done by college professors in my country are done by students they do all of the hard work and the teacher takes the credit. Its a very general and dare I say normal thing around here. Im just doing a disertation and there are certain things that only a person who works in this kind of envoriment will know. And those are the questions Ive asked. Sorry I cant read everything you wrote but I want to get clear that I`m not claiming to do a PHD thesis.

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YOuve got really a very wrong impression about me. Im not ungrateful at all but I havent received any answer to any of my question. Even the trading imbalanced one people told me to look at it and assume because I dont know for sure im just assuming the cargo ship goes from the US to China half full. As far as dropping from the conversation I agree with you, you shouldnt help me and you havent helped me all you did was waste both of our times. I could have done a lot of other things then reading what you write which has absolutely nothing to do with what I was asking. So thanks but no thanks please dont write me ever again and sincerely hope I never talk to you ever again. Im not trying to be mean its just this will never end up to amount to anything

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The Romanian oracle of wisdom has spoken people and revealed its true colors.

I wish you much continued success researching and I’m sure with your attitude you’ll piss off many more people before you’ll finally get the answers you’re looking for.
It seems you’ve already pissed off a few here based on the answers in your thread

As the french say “C’est le ton qui fait la musique”

So all the best navigating the treacherous waters of the research world :+1:

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I just knew even tough I asked you nicely to leave me alone you wouldnt. Yeah the tone makes the music. But Im not a bad person you are. And you are just wasting peoples time. I was very respectful in this thread. As the Title suggested Can I please ask a question here is extremely respectfull. You just like to write long posts with none-sense and attack people

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If you’re trying to figure out how much per day a container ship would cost to operate, you would also have to include the vessel financing, and maintenance and repair. Crew costs are just one part of overhead. Then of course there’s fuel.

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on a 1000 TEU ship thats about 300k per one trip

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Oh Bogdan, Bogdan. I truly sympathise with You. I offered You a simple solution to your simple problem. To write me a msg on PM. I can guarantee our private conversation would not end up in a massacre or debacle like this one here which you have experienced on your own will.

Even if I offered You some harsh words, then it would be in private. But You have chosen otherwise, you have chosen the public arena , hence the humiliation is more severe and more poignant, more painful. And why?.

Because You could not find the PM MESSAGE button or have not applied adequate diligence to find it. You give up too easily young man. I wrote my thesis in 1981/82 and it was exactly like alias EGGo has described.

The laboratory testing part was I would say easy but research was a challenge. We had not Internet then, no forums, no social media. All was done in the quiet ambience of the universitiies and polithechnic libraries leafing through and reading thousands of pages of expert writing.

And please do not complain about Romanian educational system. Had some Romanian Chief mates and mates. TOP GUNS in IT sciences and skills and could crack everything that was crackable on board not to mention fixing IT problems.

I am a bit surprised though as I thought it was You who had chosen the subject of your thesis not some PhD asshole had picked it for you as this seems crazy a bit to me.

One more thing. Looks to me it was your first encounter with Anglo-Saxon tribe and in this respect I am afraid You have to learn a lot and experience too.
They are the masters of cruelty and deceit.

Try to get some help in your own crowd as Slavs are a bit more accommodating and willing to help.

Cheers

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Hello,

Thanks, but I cant find the PM button. It doesnt matter what people say. Im used to people treating me badly. But what I dont understand is if I put out 3 questions that can be answered with 3 words, why do people call me lazy?

Ive heard how it was in those times. But my university doesnt have any information regarding shipping, and I really like the subject. But some things you just cant find on the internet. No need to feel bad for me, though, as Im already well over all the bad things that Ive seen here. Ive said what Ive said, but what really hurt is people saying that my true nature has revealed itself. Im not at all an impolite person; I`m a NERD; nerds are nice people who want and like to make friends.

I`ve posted my questions here again maybe someone can answer tthem.OR maybe you can answer me them here.

1.Is it safe to assume that when ships sail back to China from the US they only travel half full?
2. Whats the sailor's work program 1 month at sea 2 weeks off or 3 months at sea and 3 months off 3. And finally, the last one, can a ship sail for 90-100 times a year from China to the US and back? If that isnt the number, what would be a more realistic figure that happens in real life?
Thank you

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Jeeeeeeeezus Christ . !!!

Can not believe it. You are really in need of some heavy duty mentoring.

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See the video clip how to do it and stop whining for God’s sake as i am already in tears :wink:

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Okay, I’ll answer 1 of your questions if you answer the only question I have for you.

#2. Answer. There’s no set work rotation standardized for any particular ship or route. Each work schedule is dependent on the mariners nationality, union, contract or hiring agency. When a mariner signs onto a ship they usually sign a contract or articles. The wealthier the mariners home country, usually the more favorable the contract for the mariner. I have Filipino crewmembers who used to work 9 months to a year straight on Pacific crossing ships but also know Bulgarians & Ukrainians who only worked 2 or 4 months at a time for 10x the salary.

Now my question. Why does your font in your posts look like a ransom letter that kidnappers send to the FBI? Its like you’re cutting letters out of magazines & newspapers to post a comment?

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may be He is processing his original lingo through google translator. ?

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I can understand that if it was a paragraph or a complete sentence. But sometimes its just 2 words in a sentence & google translate uses apostrophes when translating to English while he mostly doesn’t. I’ve cleaned up a lot of my emails & reports with Google Translate but never had one look like a ransom letter.

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Be carfull then :joy: :joy: :joy:

Think it is time to alert gCapt. supermoderators. Looks fishy to me :joy:

One never knows.

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Ion Mihai Pacepa
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Pacepa in 1975
Born 28 October 1928

Bucharest, Romania
Died 14 February 2021 (aged 92)

United States
Citizenship Romanian
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Ion Mihai Pacepa (Romanian pronunciation: [iˈon miˈhaj paˈt͡ʃepa]; 28 October 1928 – 14 February 2021) was a Romanian lieutenant general in the Securitate, the secret police of the Socialist Republic of Romania, who defected to the United States in July 1978 following President Jimmy Carter’s approval of his request for political asylum. He was the highest-ranking defector from the former Eastern Bloc, and wrote books and articles on the inner workings of communist intelligence services. His best-known works are the books Disinformation and Red Horizons.

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It is not safe to assume that ships on a SECHINAsea to WCUSA run are coming back to China half full.

It is safe to assume they come back less then full . It depends on many factors. It is safe to say that east bound the container ship will carry more cargo in terms of TEU capacity as well as in terms of DWT . I was a regular on west coast with ships abt 6000 teu and as described before on smaller ships under different time charters.Kien Hung lines, Van Hail , APL and OOCL.

In case of a container vessel
one must distiguish btw volumetric capacity which is expressed in TEU . For example 9600 Teu and DWT capacity ca 96-100 K Mt.

From my own experience my ships under a/m time charters never carried more west bound then east bound in terms of TEU and weightwise.

Owners /managers/charterers require the ships command(chmate) to do so called “container utilisation” reports to satisfy the paper tiger with valuable statistical data on a certain run. On a certain leg one simply calculates the ratio : present on board intake /maximum intake as delivered and as per vsl description. Same applies to weight . There is a lot more to it regarding mpties( empty containers ) . To put it simply chmate fills the form required by the clients and excel formulas do the rest. Some lines have their own dedicated aps.

Why there is such trade imbalance pls search the websites mentioned by other interlocutors here. But surely You must know that famous “Wrangler” & " Rifle" blue jeans are made in Romania what shocked me once long , long time ago- just to give You a hint.

But…and there is always but. You may know or not -check it out please via google ., many carriers formed aliances and container sharing agreements. For this info pls look up Dr.Sal videos “whats going on with shipping” on utube where He explains it handsomely or do some research.

There may be a case that my ship is in LAX or OAK in last port before going west to China and all parties to the aliance have an urgent need to evacuate empties from WCUSA as there is a holiday season coming and Chinese line agents are screaming for containers to load chinese poisoned exploding toys or poorly manufactured medicines saving Ameicans from diarrhea , tasty mango flavoured condoms ,sex shop gadgets or want to load other items like firecrackers (class 1.4) which surely will go into hold no 1. with Owners permission and under Charter Party conditions. (clauses)

Under such circumstances the ship may be almost full with emty evacuated from USA containers. but wieghtwise or DWT wise or draftwise if You like it, it may be only 40% full and this figure may vary widely resulting in horribly high GM ( metacentric height) what will torture and tire every seafarers guts while rolling violently.

To give You a picture, have a look at the most famous in USA container ship Dali. She was actually sailing the oposite way and from ECUSA to far east but pls examine her max TEU intake versus what she got on board and note that almost half of the boxes were empy.

Summarising I repeat again . It is not safe to conclude that ships travel fm WCUSA to SECHINAsea half full .

Cheers

added: 09.10.24

looks like i have wasted my time :wink:
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QUOTE : I`m a NERD, nerds are nice people who want and like to make friends. END QUOTE.

Well, I am not sure as overwhelming evidence indicated above does not match below :

nerd

  1. a person who is extremely enthusiastic and knowledgeable about a particular subject, especially one of specialist or niche interest.

  2. engage in or discuss a technical field obsessively or with great attention to detail.

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Maybe some kind of LLM testing/experiment?

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He can’t find it because I’m pretty sure new users don’t have a PM button, though they can respond to PMs sent to them.

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Call me back when your “pretty sure” is 100% sure.
Also define “new user” and how much user time is needed and describe other factors required to become the " other " more advanced user. I see there are many categories/groups of users like : banned users, registered users and other .

I am not fm MIssouri but i am a huge fan of " show me"

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Ok, I’m 100% sure.

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THANKS. It answers a lot but raises some more questions . I must admit i have not even once read this guidelines. If You would not mind I will screen shot our conversation and insert it in the thread where alias lupus commented on the “greenhorn” issue what has intrigued me a bit .

However. Can You be so kind and explain how your remark ,although witty , ties or dovetails with the topic of this thread “…questions about shippng please” as I can not see any even remote connection .

What is it that prompted You to jump in the shoes of alias Bogdanm solicitor and what is it you were keen to
demonstrate off topic ?