On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:42:06 +0100, Keith G wrote:

and smell the Singapore Slings!

There's a prog on the telly right *now* featuring the world's busiest port -
Singapore. A quarter of all the world's cargo passes through it!!

Watching the scale of the operation and pace (enthusiasm and commitment) of
those involved confirms my suspicions that the slack-arsed, complacent West
has got a hell of a shock coming! They're docking ships the size of Wales at
the rate of one every 3 minutes and Singapore (4.5 million souls) is
'wealthier than most European countries'!!

There's a little bit of patronising opinion in here about the recent influx
of Far Eastern audio products like the phrase 'Made In Hong Kong' still only
applies to joke rubber dog**** and plastic trinkets found in Christmas
Crackers! (Strong with our antipodean comrades, unsurprisingly.... ;-)

Time to overcome our prejudices and take note methinks...

The thing that worried me was that they said Singapore was the only port in
the world that could handle that huge container ship. What do you do? Book
your cargo onto it for a nice cruise, then take it all off again when the
ship gets home?

d