Aboard a Cargo Colossus - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/business/international/aboard-a-cargo-colossus-maersks-new-container-ships.html?partner=rss&emc=rs
Ça date d’octobre 2014, j’avais raté cet article - A mettre au dossier des méga-navires (ces bateaux si gros qu’ils ne passent pas le canal de Panama et ne rentre pas certains des ports actuels...)
A helicopter appeared in the sky over the North Sea.
It was 7 a.m. on a Wednesday this summer, and the helicopter circled in a wide arc before hovering above a ship traveling south at about 15 knots. At more than 1,300 feet long, the ship, the Mary Maersk, was hard to miss. It is longer than the Eiffel Tower is high, and the Mary and its sister ships are the biggest container ships in the world.
Feet appeared first from the helicopter, then a pair of Levi’s, and gradually a man was lowered by rope onto the ship’s deck. His job was to pilot the ship down a narrow dredged channel in the Weser River, toward the port of Bremerhaven, Germany.