A container ship spanning nearly 400 metres and weighing over 214,000 tonnes is making its maiden voyage thanks to a training centre in Wallingford. The Madrid Maersk, the world’s biggest container ship, arrived in Felixstowe on June 6. Thanks to HR Wallingford’s UK Ship Simulation centre, pilots and tug masters tested the conditions in which […]
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