Floating Homes. Part-Two.

Alternative Living.

So far many changes and ways to live have been adapted, but not many governments have taken the idea seriously as perhaps they should? Most people who enter countries as refugees end up in the homes that the local population does not want because of high crime areas and yet they then end up crying wolf?

This problem of building has remained in Europe and N-America now for over forty years, one can work out it has little to do with costs, but more with the rising value of the land to be developed for luxary tower blocks of unreachable normal pricing?

Some countries have tried many new ideas, but they are still limited to spacial projects for certain types of successful peoples. One reason for the failure to adapt this idea has to do with the laws on river boat traffic, but them many governments do very little to improve the plethora of damp and decreped land properties that already exist?

Cargo Ships. Part-Three.

Differing Loads.

Most of today's cargo traffic is part of the container world, the container protects goods and also hides them from prying eyes. But not all goods that need moving by sea can fit into a container and so a group of ships have been designed to meet this criteria in the term General Cargo.

Some vessels carry odd shaped loads, other pre-built housing and machinery, others have been adapted as internal tankers, others for fertilisers, various types of ground down rocks and still others for coal. They all fit the category for sea and large canal operations and are flexible in what they take from A-to-B.

Today there are thousands of these types of vessels operating right across the world, some are quite aged and still chugging along while newer ones are more state of the art with low loading and their own cranes.

Cargo Ships. Part-Two.

Container World.

It was the introduction of the container that has changed the world, we now can have anything and everything exported and imported in a metal box. The mordern world is built around the container, which can be carried by road, train, large transport aircraft and shipping.

These containers are available in various sizes, I have noticed that in India and Ireland they are smaller and are perhaps easier to handle without the need of a fork-lifter or crane. But the disadvantage with conainers is that they are good for hiding criminal goods and are hard to detect by police and customs.

Old containers are not heading directly to the scap yard, but now being used in housing projects both in the United Kindom and the Netherlands, while in Canada units are employed for small business start ups.