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You have all done well on the previous quizes so here’s a challenge. What’s featured in the picture above?
UPDATE:
Ignacio-Wenley Palacios correctly identified the photo as marine salvage equipment known as Titan Pullers. The company’s website says:
Titan’s 300-tonne linear hydraulic pullers otherwise known as “Titan Pullers” is shown above. The pullers have been used in a […]

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Let’s check our collective intellegence with a short Quiz:
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Congratulations to the 5 readers with the correct answer: Antwerp.
The top ten ports for ship detentions are:

Antwerp
Bandar Abbas
Novorossiysk
Constantza
Ningbo
Shanghai
Nikolayev
Gladstone
Koper
Singapore

Details can be found at the very interesting site Lloyds MIU

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We received email that our last quiz was just too easy so we challenge you to try this…. the above picture shows something carried aboard certain ships that’s critical to the future success of this website. What is it?
Hint: It’s being covered today in the newspapers of our 4th and 5th favorite cities.
Update
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What is it??
A free gCaptain t-shirt goes out to the first person who can correctly identify this cargo.
UPDATE:
We have a winner. Charlie of Sea Wolf Engineering correctly identified the cargo as nuclear fuel casks. The owner of the ship, Pacific Nuclear Transport Ltd tells us:
The special packages in which PNTL transports nuclear material are called […]

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