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The Challenges of Shipping From China – Life of a Flailing Tube Man

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Last summer was an exercise in developing a completely different kind of product from my normal wheelhouse; a costume. My Halloween costume had been so popular that I decided to have a go at commercializing it, and that took me on a path into manufacturing that I hadn’t yet taken; shipping by boat from China. The short version is it’s a ridiculously difficult mess.

The costume is called the Wacky Dancer, and you can visit the website or find it on Amazon. It’s awesome and we did a good job making it. That’s the pitch. The rest of the article …read more

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Violent Piracy in Southeast Asia – A Feature of the Past?

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ReCaap’s July 2018 Monthly Report recorded not only a year-on-year decline in piracy incidents for January to July compared to 2017, but also a significant reduction in the number of violent incidents. ReCaap recorded no ‘Category 1’ … Continue reading Violent Piracy in Southeast Asia – A Feature of the Past?→

UK shipping giant deals with data breach by the book, recovers stolen data

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Strengthening the notion that a single vulnerable endpoint, or unwary employee, can grant hackers safe passage into an organization’s entire infrastructure, British shipping company Clarksons PLC this week confirmed the discovery of a data breach… Continue reading UK shipping giant deals with data breach by the book, recovers stolen data→

Shipping Company Struck by Ransomware Attack

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A shipping company suffered a ransomware attack that affected certain network systems in one of its regions of operation. On 25 July, COSCO Shipping Lines disclosed on Facebook that it had suffered a “local network breakdown” in the America… Continue reading Shipping Company Struck by Ransomware Attack→

Ransomware Attack Strikes COSCO’s US Shipping Services

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This article is about a recent network breakdown that has impacted the services of COSCO (China Ocean Shipping Company). On the 24th of July, an unknown ransomware virus has impacted the American part of the COSCO shipping lines. The company…Read mor… Continue reading Ransomware Attack Strikes COSCO’s US Shipping Services→

Laser Cutter Turns Scrapped To Shipped

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We’ll go way out on a limb here and say you’ve probably got a ridiculous amount of flattened cardboard boxes. We’re buying more stuff online than ever before, and all those boxes really start to add up. At the least we hope they’re making it to the recycling bin, but what about reusing them? Surely there’s something you could do with all those empty shipping boxes…

Here’s a wild idea…why not use them to ship things? But not exactly as they are, unless you’re in the business of shipping big stuff, the probably won’t do you much good as-is. Instead, …read more

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Vacuum Tubes: Shipping Through EBay Now Challenging?

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There is disquiet in the world of vacuum electronics, that something as simple as shipping a vacuum tube could now be very difficult to achieve. It’s a concern expressed among other places in a video by [Guitologist] that we’ve included below, and includes tales of vacuum tubes being impounded as either dangerous to ship, or not allowed to be shipped across international borders.

Upon investigation it appears that the common thread in all the stories lies with eBay’s Global Shipping Program, the centralised shipping service operated by the online auction giant. We reached out to eBay’s press office on the …read more

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