Monte VI de E‑O

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Puerto de Montevideo

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Facilities and operations: Katoen Natie

Ship: YM Trust

Owner: Yang Ming Marine Transport corporation.

Flag: Singapore

Contructed by: Higaki Shipbuilding,2021

Cargo Capacity: 14,000 containers.

Route: Round trip, Asia to South America

Location: Guru'Guay

The End

In 1726, Spain defeated Portuguese invaders and created el Puerto de Montevideo. The official name was a Spanish navigation point. The sixth hill east to west, along a deep natural harbor. Now the blinking beacon in the middle left of the video marks the hill.
Monte de VI de E a O
At first, Montevideo was a small village in Spain’s colonial empire. Soon it became a major international port for tycoons in Amsterdam, London, Lisbon, New York, and Seville.
It also welcomed thousands of Europeans and their African slaves. The Europeans overwhelmed and mostly eradicated the people who lived near the port and in the countryside. Eventually, after many battles and manoeuvres, the Europeans created a new nation.
República Oriental del Uruguay
Now, 300 years after the first ships unloaded there, el Puerto de Montevideo receives and exports enormous cargos of minerals, energy, food, wine, vehicles, and life’s essentials and luxuries, to and from the Americas, Europe, Asia, and beyond. It is a major link in the world’s industrial empires.

Katoen Natie was created in Antwerp in 1854, to receive and process cargos of cotton from Europe’s colonial empires.
In English, its name is: Cotton Guild.
En español: Asociación Algodonera.
It slowly expanded to manage imports of jute, coffee, cocoa, wool, rubber, and aluminium from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. Now, 170 years after it processed its first shipment, Katoen Natie manages ports and trade in 36 countries.
It’s a major player in international logistics. It’s also a major player in international art. Its home office in Antwerp displays works from the company’s collection of 3000 classic and contemporary artworks and objects.
Senior executives work surrounded by art that others can see by appointment only.

In 1726, Spain defeated Portuguese invaders and created el Puerto de Montevideo. The official name was a Spanish navigation point. The sixth hill east to west, along a deep natural harbor. Now the blinking beacon in the middle left of the video marks the hill.

Monte de VI de E a O

At first, Montevideo was a small village in Spain’s colonial empire. Soon it became a major international port for tycoons in Amsterdam, London, Lisbon, New York, and Seville.

It also welcomed thousands of Europeans and their African slaves. The Europeans overwhelmed and mostly eradicated the people who lived near the port and in the countryside. Eventually, after many battles and manoeuvres, the Europeans created a new nation.

República Oriental del Uruguay

Now, 300 years after the first ships unloaded there, el Puerto de Montevideo receives and exports enormous cargos of minerals, energy, food, wine, vehicles, and life’s essentials and luxuries, to and from the Americas, Europe, Asia, and beyond. It is a major link in the world’s industrial empires.

Katoen Natie was created in Antwerp in 1854, to receive and process cargos of cotton from Europe’s colonial empires.

In English, its name is: Cotton Guild.

En español: Asociación Algodonera.

It slowly expanded to manage imports of jute, coffee, cocoa, wool, rubber, and aluminium from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas.

Now, 170 years after it processed its first shipment, Katoen Natie manages ports and trade in 36 countries. It’s a major player in international logistics.

It’s also a major player in international art. Its home office in Antwerp displays works from the company’s collection of 3000 classic and contemporary artworks and objects.

Senior executives work surrounded by art that others can see by appointment only.

YM Trust is owned by Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation.

Since 1972, its fleet has grown from a few ships in its home port, in Taiwan, to 94 huge freight haulers working 24 hours every day in every ocean and major port on earth.

In English, Yang Ming is bright sun.

En español: sol brillante.

Most of Yang Ming’s ships are registered in Liberia. A few in Panamá. A few more in Hong Kong. It’s the ninth-biggest container shipping company in the world.

Near its head office in Taiwan, Yang Ming renovated a 1915 landmark built by the Japan Mailboat Steamship Line in Keelung Harbour.

Now it’s the YM Oceanic Culture & Art Museum.
On the third floor, visitors can pretend to navigate a modern container ship in a virtual simulation.

The museum welcomes visitors with a request:
If you are ready, please open up that cargo ship within your heart, and load it with cargo full of maritime knowledge!


Every ship in the world must be registered by a nation.
Owners and nations negotiate expensive deals to join flag lists.

Singapore’s Maritime and Port Authority registers more than 4400 ships It is the fifth-biggest ship registry in the world.

One hundred years ago, Singapore was a struggling swamp in the British Empire.
Now it’s one of the world’s most successful ports.

Higaki Shipbuilding, 30 km southeast of Hiroshima, is the biggest Japanese shipbuilding company, the fourth biggest in the world. Every year, it buys about the same amount of steel that Toyota buys to make 5.4 million vehicles.

The steel’s basic component is iron ore from the Greater Tom Price mine in Pilbara Western Australia.
Tom Price is the seventh-biggest iron mine on earth.
It’s owned by Rio Tinto, the second-biggest iron mining conglomerate in the world.

Higaki Shipbuilding is owned and operated by about 100 descendants of Tameji Higaki, who founded the company in 1951. It builds and repairs cargo ships, chemical tankers, liquefied gas carriers, and cement haulers. And it has its own fleet of 150 cargo ships, all leased by shipping companies.

Higaki Shipbuilding’s slogan is:
Go Beyond the Waves

Waves are everywhere, in every thing in the universe.
Most deep thinkers agree that beyond the waves is impossible.

Some also insist that without ships and ports, the world would shrivel and die.

Every day, millions of people are already shriveling and dying, to grow and mine and manufacture and transport the cargo.
They have nothing.
But without them, good clothing and food and machines and energy and comfort are impossible.

Nobody knows when Earth’s first port was invented.
Ever since then, ports have always been one of the most valuable inventions in the history of the universe.

© Monte Vi de E-O. Concept & Art Direction: Tom Rieke – Production & Videography: Vasco Elola Website: Sol Kawage based on Story by html5up.