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There’s an old pattern recognition puzzle . . .  one of these is not like the others . . .

An Oshkosh FMTV on a US-flagged Maersk ship is not something you see every day.

If tugster posts consisted of single photos, the one below would be it today.

 

It turns out that had I been on the shadow side, I would have seen more of these vehicles. 

 

All photos, WVD, who sees unique cargoes now and again like here in desert tan, here in ag green, here is Mirage camouflage, here in a different desert tan . . . and there have been more.

Of course, the really unique cargoes might be the ones enclosed in the mystery boxes.

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Usually the cargo is invisible, but that’s not always true.  I hadn’t even noticed the cargo when I took this photo of Kimberly Turecamo leaning into the rust streaked Maersk container ship.

But above and then below, you too see the cargo.  No attempt even half-hearted has been made to cover that cargo, as was the case here. 

We’ve seen military vehicles before as cargo, here, here,  and here.

We’ve even seen aircraft as in here and here.

And given that military vehicles make up part of the load, I was not surprised when I saw it was Norfolk registered, i.e., US-flagged but not Jones Act . . . given that it was built in Korea and previously sailed under a British flag.

All photos, WVD.  Keep your eyes peeled because you never know what you’ll see.   By the way, Kinloss arrived yesterday and has already departed;  I don’t know if the military vehicles were discharged in our port.

I know this won’t display on FB blanks out enlargeable photos, so count on coming directly to the tugster wordpress site.