11 h. ago ‘Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni

With strikes and demonstrations, intensifying Italian opposition to Israel’s war is challenging the PM’s stanceA piercing chorus of tooting horns and dockers shouting “we don’t want you” greeted an Israeli-owned container ship when it arrived in Livorno, a port city on the coast of Tuscany this week.For two days, the striking dockworkers stood their ground, refusing to unload and reload the ship’s cargo in a display of defiant solidarity for Palestinians and the Global Sumud flotilla attempting to bring aid to Gaza. The protest was a triumph and the ship, bound for the US and Canada, left. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago A school field trip to see neoliberalism in action? Count me in | Zoe Williams

It wasn’t quite what I was expecting from my daughter’s A-level geography class, but I had plenty of ideasIf you happen to have children of an age to willingly study geography, you’ll know that it’s the topic with all the best field trips. They’re constantly going somewhere. That place is rarely cool to begin with, and they zone in on the least cool thing about it, so if they go to the seaside, they’re there to measure groynes rather than taste-test ice-creams; and if they go to a shopping centre, it’s to ask local residents what they think of urban regeneration, not to look round the shops. But they seem really into it, so who am I to cavil?Therefore, while only somewhat listening to a conversation about an A-level module on globalisation – which is split into categories, one of which is shipping containers, like a parody of school being boring, and another is neoliberalism – I got it into my head that my daughter had to go on a field trip to see some neoliberalism in action. Conti...

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1 week ago China's Arctic shortcut to Britain: Beijing sends 965ft container ship through melting Northeast passage halving 40

The Istanbul Bridge, a Chinese-owned container ship, will on Wednesday set sail from Ningbo-Zhoushan port, the world's largest, to Felixstowe, east Suffolk.

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1 week ago China's Arctic shortcut to Britain: Beijing sends 965ft container ship through melting Northeast passage more than halving 40

The Istanbul Bridge, a Chinese-owned container ship, will on Wednesday set sail from Ningbo-Zhoushan port, the world's largest, to Felixstowe, east Suffolk.

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2 w. ago Darkfield returns to London with four immersive audio experiences in shipping containers

Darkfield returns to London with four immersive audio experiences in shipping containers  Inavate

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3 w. ago 'I boarded a flight and took part in a séance in a shipping container in Manchester

I've still not fully recovered

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3 w. ago Inside the hair salon doubling as an immersive audio experience

Inside the hair salon doubling as an immersive audio experience  wallpaper.com

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3 w. ago Britain's cocaine 'superhighway': How Ireland's tiny navy of just eight ships is to blame for South American cartels flooding UK with drugs

Buffeted by high winds, special forces soldiers leap out of a helicopter and rush down fast-ropes onto the container ship as it sways from side to side in the roiling Irish Sea.

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3 w. ago More than 60 containers litter sea after falling off ship in Long Beach port

More than 60 containers have toppled off a cargo ship in the Port of Long Beach

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3 w. ago Chaos at massive cargo port in Los Angeles as dozens of shipping containers tumble into the ocean

Crew members at a massive cargo port outside of Los Angeles rushed to respond after at least 50 shipping containers slipped off a vessel and fell into the ocean.

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3 w. ago Powering change: UK battery firms aim to unlock the way to net zero

Companies using different technologies for long-duration storage seek funding as country shifts to renewables and requires greater energy securityThink of battery manufacturing and it may evoke images of Elon Musk and Tesla’s sprawling “gigafactories” around the globe, or China’s vast, hi-tech clean rooms churning out cells to go in anything from electric toothbrushes to mobile phones and cars. But at Invinity Energy Systems’s small factory in Bathgate, near Edinburgh, workers slotting parts together are hoping that Britain can also play a part in the battery revolution.These batteries, which rely on vanadium ions, are put in 6-metre (20ft), 25-tonne shipping containers. They will not go into cars, but the manufacturer hopes the technology can win a place in a global rush into storage to usher in the shift to net zero carbon grids. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Darkfield taking immersive shipping containers to Stratford, London

Darkfield taking immersive shipping containers to Stratford, London  Blooloop

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