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Anna Tyshinski

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
225 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

RORO your boats.

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

RORO stands for roll on, roll off.

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

And they are car carrying boats.

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

So they are more convenient than LOLOs, which are lift on, lift offs for boats carrying any kind of cargo that doesn't have wheels because you drive cars on and off them.

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

And China's about to build the world's biggest one, which is going to carry, any guesses on how many cars?

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

That's a good guess, actually.

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

Pretty good, right?

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

I haven't finished on row rows.

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

But also the stevedores, which is cool because you rarely get to use that word.

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

Stevedores being people who pack and unpack ships.

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

Dozens will work on a ship at once.

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

They have a huge car park full of the cars that need to get on the ship.

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

Let's say 40 stevedores jump in 40 cars, zoom really, really fast because they've got to get 13,000 cars on this ship.

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

Because she was a generation that were against it on principle, right?

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

Well, there was like a theory, wasn't there?

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

The first sort of car was in China.