We ship quite a lot of boxes to Europe with Evergreen.
Don't know if any of our containers are on that ship but we will definitely have quite a few in the traffic jam building up behind the block.

We have a few customers with shipments on the way who are flapping already.

Ah well I remember the days we sailed around Cape Horn.

First sighted by Sir Francis Drake in 1578, but named by two Dutch navigators who rounded it in 1616, after the birth place in Holland of one of them. The old sailing ship men called it "Cape Stiff". Traditionally, a sailor who had rounded the Horn was entitled to wear a gold loop earring—in the left ear, the one which had faced the Horn in a typical eastbound passage. It used to be said that completion of the journey round Cape Horn entitled an officer to sit in the wardroom with one foot on the table: to have gone round Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope entitled him to sit with both feet on the table (but nothing entitled him to spit to windward!)

Are you suggesting that all sailors are straight? I understood that men pierced their left ear if they were straight and their right ear if they were a little light on their loafers.

I wonder whose insurance will cover it. The pilot is in charge while they are in the canal. Usually busy with his hand out for more packs of ciggies, not sure about the Scotch.