#Megaport

[rhk111sblog]

Look at that Headline which says something in effect of, "Peru hoping to be the Singapore of Latin America thanks to help from China with its new Megaport". Do you see the United States (US) doing the same for its most loyal Dog in South East Asia (SEA), something like, "Philippines hoping to be the next Singapore thanks to US help with its new Megaport"?

And to think that Peru is just South of the US, it is basically on the Continent next to it, and yet Peru has had to ask help from China which is much farther away to help them build their Megaport. The "Port of Chancay" as it is now known is worth Usd 3.5 billion and has an Area of 992 hectares.

The Peruvian Government estimates that it will create up to 8,000 Jobs in the next ten Years, not to mention the amount of increased Trade it will bring into Peru's Economy. This Megaport is Part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Program of China, the same Program which Filipino Dogs of the US actively and proudly sabotaged into almost nothingness here in the Philippines during the Term of former President Rodrigo Duterte.

But I guess that’s just fitting: “China is helping Peru to become the Singapore of Latin America, while the US is helping the Philippines become the Ukraine of Asia”, LOL.

Here is the Link to the Article at the Microsoft Network (MSN) Website: https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/markets/peru-hoping-to-become-the-singapore-of-latin-america-on-the-back-of-chinas-new-megaport/ar-AA1u6WSb

SOURCE: Peru hoping to become the 'Singapore of Latin America' on the back of China's new Megaport {Archived Link}

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Jan 13th UPDATE!

After still experiencing crashes (the latest today, right after the NYE kiss!) I have immediately contacted Megaport's - the PC manufacturer - tech support.

Turns out...

Something occurred when/during they installed Windows 11. They messed it up.

So, they have suggested me to clean install Windows from scratch. Frankly I have never done something of the like. And even with a handy-dandy, step-by-step guide they've been so kind enough to provide, I'll rather leave that to a professional.

Which means.....Yeah. This thing is getting formatted.

It isn't such a big deal because I'm quite used to it, by now. It's just utterly annoying due to PC being "brand new". Uuuuuuugh! >< In hindsight, it's a good thing I procrastinated long enough with installing CSP to draw...

Gonna go send another ticket to WF support and tell them to mark it as solved. As well as thank them for the help they've given over the course of this stressful (mis)adventure.

I also want to thank all the fellow WF players here on Tumblr who dropped their suggestions/tips in my original post. This community is so damn precious. ;.;

Keeping fingers crossed the formatting will be successful.

Time for me to save/back everything up in my old, trusty HDD!

Desperate PC Tenno calling for help!

Calling all the tech-savvy players here on Tumblr who may hopefully lend me and tech support a hand. Yes, the situation is that bad. More under the cut to spare a lengthy wall of text!

I've been experiencing totally random and sudden crashes with WF since a month and half, by now.

The game first freezes for less than a minute, then crashes to desktop bringing up the window to report crashes. This happens literally anywhere and anytime in the game. During mission, at the end of the mission, while idling in the Orbiter/base of operations, sitting in the pause menu, checking the settings menu. All kind of possible scenarios. Ah, and DX11 or DX12 make no difference either.

It's driving me - and tech support - insane. Because it is so HARD to pinpoint the root cause! Every log file so far has reported some kind of General Protection Failure (GPF) error followed by different numbers.

I'm running the game on a brand new, pre-built computer from Megaport. Which I moved to from my old potato of a PC back in late November. Specs are the following: Windows 11 Home (build 24H2) Intel Core I7-12700KF, 8x 3.60 Ghz + 4x 2.70 Ghz ASUS Prime Z790-A Wifi DDR5 NVidia GeForce RTX 4070 Dual Palit 12GB 2x 32GB Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5-6000 1 TB SSD 1000 Watt PSU

I have done everything tech support has suggested me to do and: - Uninstalled and re-installed the game, - Update drivers. Being a new computer, everything is pretty much up to date. I had to do a clean install for the GPU drivers only using DDU, though, - Verified game files, - Emptied the shader cache on the drive game is saved to, - Repaired Steam library, - Lowered graphic settings, - Attempted to launch and run Warframe in Clean Boot mode to exclude background programs/services <- unsuccessfully; Steam didn't work at all (which I kind of figured would happen) and trying to launch the game straight from the launcher...triggered a download of the game files in the App Data folder on main (C) drive. O_o The random crashes don't even appear in the Windows Event Viewer. Nowhere to be found. And believe me, I have looked into every single category. I've been keeping track of the time(s) of the crashes but, alas, found nothing that could possibly be related to those. (also, I'm not a computer expert so perhaps I'm doing things wrong)

So far, the only weird thing I've noticed is...Most of the times there seemingly is a "break" in between each series of crashes. A few days at worst, 10-12 days at best. Yes, I checked even the Task Scheduler utility on Windows. Found no program/app that runs automatically that matches with the timing/days when the crashes have occurred so far.

Really losing my mind to this. It's frustrating, it's unnerving, it's making me genuinely terrified of playing the game. And the reason I got this PC in the first place was being finally able to play my favorite game without worrying about being unable to because of my old (and obsolete) machine! Because I don't know when the next crash shall decide to happen and oh boy it's gonna be so fun losing progress. Or having a couple of players reasonably angry at me for suddenly poofing as host. I'm really sorry about that, folks.

I'm already considering the option of total formatting this computer, should there be no other way. But not before entirely giving up. And maybe make things a little less complicated for tech support team.

I can't thank these guys enough for their help and most importantly patience over the past month and half. This mess has been handed to three different people already and a solution hasn't been found yet.

So, if there are fellow Tenno on Tumblr who have either experienced something like this before and found a fix or are just more knowledgeable about computers and whatnot, your help would be GREATLY appreciated. ;.;

EDIT: I forgot to mention a few important things! - Hardware temperatures are within optimal range while in game (CPU never above 65°C, GPU has been running ice cold and has rarely exceeded 50°C so far, RAM is chilling at 45°C average). - GPU memory usage averages around at max (peak) 77% on HWInfo. - CPU usage I honestly need to check! D: - Ran disk cleanup, scans with sfc, chkdsk and DISM (all through command prompts ran as admin) and no issues were found. - Checked RAM health as well with Windows' memory diagnostic tool. However, it seems to give many false positives even on perfectly functional RAM banks. Looking for a more reliable alternative. - Warframe is the only game that keeps crashing on this PC. I haven't been getting any with other games/programs (Hades II; need to test how Ultrakill performs) or any warning signs (BSODs, freezes, sluggish PC, etc) that could suggest hardware failure.

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[iamthedukeofurl]

FHJY Spoilers I'm not going to go here and say the Bad Kids should have tried to redeem the Rat Grinders mid-fight, not with the Multi-Jace and MegaPorter there. But: Rat Grinders rated by Redeemability Killerlady Throatcutter: Willingly and maliciously tried to not only sabotage the last stand, but do so in such a way as to perma-kill the Bad Kids. When she got made, her first instinct was to murder Buddy Dawn with zero hesitation. 0/10. Yeah, she was manipulated, but she's probably so egotistical that she would have to suffer some sort of ego-death breakdown before she could ever admit that she did anything wrong. Oisin Hakinvar: We know he has been heavily and directly involved in a lot of the Rat Grinder's nastiest schemes. The involvement of his grandma and the dragons attacking the house means that he was, at the very least, open to the idea of massacring the Augefort students attending the party to get at the Bad Kids. Still, he's just normal levels of wizard-smug, I could see somebody talking him around. 2/10. Ivy Embra: Okay, Ivy doesn't do much besides be mean to Maisy. We don't get much sense of her, so I'm going to give her a 5/10, just because there isn't much to go on. Ruben Hopclap: Ruben is one of the few Rat Grinders to show much in the way of character OUTSIDE of being an antagonist. Wanda Childa may have been an elaborate mind game that didn't really go anywhere, but it proved that Ruben at least had something going on in his life besides weird plans to ascend a new god of toxic masculinity. I think he could probably have been talked around given the right circumstances, which is probably why Kipperlilly kept the whole team hidden after the Last Stand. 7/10. Buddy Dawn: Look, Helio sucks and Buddy Dawn sucks too, but I don't think he's actually EVIL. If he hadn't been killed and rage-resurrected, he'd be perfectly fine. The whole concept of this discussion assumes that there's a way of breaking the connection between the Rat Grinders and corrupted Ankarna. I think that the moment that happens, Buddy Dawn goes back to worshiping corn or whatever. 10/10. Maryanne Scuttle: Look, I don't know what you want from me here. Maryann Scuttle is a riddle wrapped inside an Engima. Maryanne Scuttle is an impenetrable citadel of mystery. Maryann Scuttle might be the most devoted servant of destruction we have ever seen, she might have flipped sides if gorgug bought her a soda. I Don't Know. ???/10.

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

China’s Railway Plans to Connect Brazil to Peru’s Chancay Megaport: A New Trade Gateway for South American Tourism and Logistics

A significant development in infrastructure and trade relations unfolded during a recent visit by a Chinese delegation to Brazil. This week-long tour, which included 11 officials from the China State Railway Group and the Chinese Ministry of Transport, focused on strategic agreements that could reshape transportation and logistics between Brazil and Peru. This visit is part of China’s broader efforts to strengthen its trade ties with South America, particularly through the construction of a crucial railway link to Peru’s Chancay megaport.

Continue reading.

[beardedmrbean]

CHANCAY, Peru (AP) — On the edge of Peru’s coastal desert, a remote fishing town where a third of all residents have no running water is being transformed into a huge deep-water port to cash in on the inexorable rise of Chinese interest in resource-rich South America.

The megaport of Chancay, a $1.3 billion project majority-owned by the Chinese shipping giant Cosco, is turning this outpost of bobbing fishing boats into an important node of the global economy.

From the presidential palace in Lima, 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of the port inauguration ceremony, China’s President Xi Jinping watched a livestream of the ribbon-cutting alongside his Peruvian counterpart, Dina Boluarte, late Thursday.

The leaders' faces appeared on a giant screen in Chancay, where engineers in bright orange safety vests declared the port operational to the swell of string instruments. Chinese dancers with red dragon-costume heads seemingly burst out of nowhere to prance around the docking station as a crane lowered the first aluminum containers onto a berthed cargo ship.

“Considerable income and enormous job opportunities will be generated for Peru,” Xi said from Lima, where world leaders were preparing to gather for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. “This will generate tangible results for the people of the region.”

But the development — expected to encompass 15 quays and a large industrial park drawing more than $3.5 billion in investment over a decade — has met a skeptical response from impoverished villagers, who say it is depriving them of fishing waters and bringing no economic benefit to locals.

“Our fishing spots no longer exist here. They destroyed them,” said 78-year-old fisherman Julius Caesar — “like the emperor of Rome” — gesturing toward the dockside cranes. “I don't blame the Chinese for trying to mine this place for all it's worth. I blame our government for not protecting us.”

The Peruvian government hopes the port will become a strategic transshipment hub for the region, opening a new line connecting South America to Asia and speeding trade across the Pacific for Peru's blueberries, Brazil's soybeans and Chile's copper, among other exports.

Officials cite the port's potential to generate millions of dollars in revenues and turn coastal cities into so-called special economic zones with tax breaks to lure investment.

“We Peruvians are focused primarily on the well-being of Peruvians,” Foreign Minister Elmer Schialer told The Associated Press.

But many of Chancay's 60,000 residents are unconvinced. Fishermen returning to port with smaller catches complain that they have already lost out.

The dredging of the port — which sucked sediment from the seabed to create a shipping channel 17 meters (56 feet) deep — has ruined fish breeding grounds, locals said.

“I’ve been out in the water all day and I’m always needing to venture farther,” said Rafael Ávila, a 28-year-old fisherman with sand in his hair, returning to shore empty-handed and exhausted.

“This used to be enough,” he said, pointing at his painted dinghy. “Now I need a larger, more expensive boat to reach the fish."

To make extra cash, Ávila started offering occasional joyrides to selfie-taking visitors wanting to get a glimpse at the hulking Chinese ships.

With some of the world's largest container ships to berth at Chancay Port in January 2025, residents also fear the arrival of pollution and oil spills. In 2022, a botched tanker delivery at La Pampilla refinery nearby sent thousands of barrels of crude oil spilling into Peru's famously biodiverse waters, killing countless fish and putting legions of fishermen out of work.

Today a glance at the moribund town center, featuring mostly empty seafood restaurants, tells the story of diminished fishing stocks and decimated tourism even without the port being operational.

The port's breakwater changed the currents and destroyed good surfing conditions, locals said, affecting everyone from ice vendors to truckers to restaurant owners. “No to the megaport” is spray-painted on a wall overlooking the waterfront.

“This port is a monster that's come here to screw us,” said 40-year-old Rosa Collantes, cleaning and gutting slimy drum fish on the shore. “People come to the port and they say ‘Wow, tremendous!' but they don't see the reality.”

Port authorities say they're aware of the stark contrast between the sleek modern port and the surrounding village of Chancay, where many live on unpaved roads lined with ragged shacks and littered with trash.

“You cannot build a state-of-the-art port and have a city next to it that has no drinking water, no sewage, a collapsing hospital and no educational centers,” said Mario de las Casas, a manager for Cosco in Chancay, adding that the company had already launched studies to determine how the port could help reduce inequality and spur local growth.

“The port should not be a blemish,” De las Casas said.

[estavionpira]

youtube video on infrastructure construction in the arab world: this new megaport will serve as a kind of 'mecca' for the international shipping industry. every year, 17 billion tons of goods are transported through the suez canal in a 'hajj' of commerce, and this new port would open an alternative pathway, showing that the suez canal never really 'had-teeth' to be begin with.

youtube video on infrastructure construction in america: the president has signed 22830730820834732084 trillion dollars in infrastructure spending, which will be used to deliver 1 (one) kilometer of rail 50 times over budget and three hundred years late, in a sign of US dominance in the international freight industry.

[mariacallous]

Pity the Peruvian negotiators who, five years ago, signed an agreement with the Chinese giant Cosco Shipping Ports. The agreement was about the Port of Chancay, located near Lima, which was to become a megaport and “the gateway from South America to Asia,” as one Cosco manager told The Associated Press. But now, as the massive port nears completion, an “administrative error” by unnamed officials in Peru has given Cosco Shipping Ports exclusivity over operations at the Port of Chancay, the Peruvian port authority (APN) announced in March. Other infrastructure operators still hoping for large Chinese investments should pay heed.

That’s bad news, because the two-terminal construction is be completed later this year, and Peru has great expectations. Cosco acquired 60 percent ownership over the port when the deal was announced in 2019, and together with Peruvian mining company Volcan, it has invested a staggering $3.5 billion in the project, which intends to turn the natural deep-water port into a cargo megaport.  The Peruvian government, though, assumed that the Chinese shipping giant would merely be using the port that it will majority-own, not have exclusive rights to it. But during the negotiations, Cosco somehow gained precisely these rights. Now APN is trying to rescind the exclusivity, saying it made a mistake.

Oh, to be a fly on the wall at APN headquarters or the office of new Peruvian new Economy Minister José Arista, who has to help sort this mess out. A mere five years ago, Cosco’s investment in Chancay, which is located a mere 40 miles to the north of the capital city of Lima, seemed to be unmitigatedly good news.

Chancay will indeed gain two massive terminals. There will be a new container terminal with 11 berths and new a four-berth terminal for bulk cargo, general cargo, and rolling cargo, World Cargo News reported. How many countries just happen to have a natural deep-water port in a strategic location and then manage to attract Chinese money to massively expand it?

In what seemed to be even better news for Peru, sailing from Chancay will dramatically cut the travel time for vessels headed to China from the region. That, of course, means increased revenues and regional power for Peru. So exciting was Chancay’s future that in March, Arista took Brazilian Planning Minister Simone Tebet to the port to discuss prospective Brazilian exports from it. Brazil—a major food-exporting nation—is interested in shipping soybeans and corn from Chancay, which would cut the transit time to Asia by some two weeks compared to the Panama Canal route, Reuters reported. (China is Brazil’s top buyer of soybeans.)

The joy was, alas, abruptly halted last month, when Cosco sent Arista’s Economy Ministry a letter disputing the contents of a message that it had received from APN. In its letter, the port authority had explained its “administrative error” and pointed out that it doesn’t have the authority to grant exclusive port access. The Chinese firm, though, is standing its ground, even implying that it could pull out if it doesn’t get exclusive access.

The Peruvian government may—like countless other governments in countries ranging from Italy to Sri Lanka that, until recently, enthusiastically courted Chinese infrastructure investments—simply have gotten cold feet about Cosco in Chancay, especially since Cosco is ultimately owned by the Chinese state through its mainland-based parent company, Cosco Shipping. Or APN may in fact have been outfoxed in the negotiations. Last year, the U.S. government told Lima that it was concerned about Chinese infrastructure control in Peru.

Either way, the Peruvian government is now in a massive bind, with the port scheduled to be completed and start operations at the end of this year.

That raises the question of how many other governments have enthusiastically negotiated agreements with Chinese infrastructure investors without understanding all the fine print.

According to research by the Council on Foreign Relations, Chinese firms have invested in 92 active ports outside China, including Hamburg, Rotterdam, and seven other EU ports as well as three in Australia. And 13 of those 92 ports, including two container terminals in Spain and Greece’s Port of Piraeus, have majority-Chinese ownership. In 10 ports with Chinese investments, the Council on Foreign Relations identified “physical potential for naval use.”

In the United States, meanwhile, security services have discovered secretly installed communications equipment in Chinese-built cargo cranes operating at U.S. ports. How many port projects that are not yet complete have unwittingly granted Chinese firms exclusive access? We likely have no way of knowing until they’re operational. But we may see more Chancays.

There are plenty of strategic reasons for these Chinese investments. At the Doraleh Container Terminal in Djibouti, the Chinese operator China Merchants Port Holdings (whose ultimate owner is also the Chinese state) is trying to dislodge the Emirati firm DP World from a long-standing contract granting the latter exclusive access. In 2017, the Chinese military opened its first overseas military base—also in Djibouti.

Many countries’ enthusiasm for China has waned. Last year, a Pew Research Center poll covering 24 countries across all inhabited continents found that a median of 67 percent of people viewed China unfavorably, compared to only 28 percent who viewed it favorably. That’s a dramatic increase from a median unfavorability rating of 41 percent that Pew found less than five years ago.

Such sentiments, though, are unlikely to discourage Chinese firms from trying to gain a stake in overseas infrastructure. In the Arctic Norwegian port town of Kirkenes (population: 3,404 people), located just 13 kilometers (8 miles) or so from the Russian border and home to the closest NATO port to Russia, no fewer than six Chinese companies are seeking to establish operations. The prospective investors include a textile manufacturer, an automotive manufacturer, a technology firm, an investment fund, a construction firm, and a shipping company.

Chinese firms are also interested in building and financing the Kirkenes Port, Norwegian National Radio reported. Kirkenes is, of course, also conveniently located near the Northern Sea Route, which goes along Russia’s Arctic coast and would slash the travel time for ships traveling from northern Europe to the Chinese East Coast or vice versa. The investment would be a big boost, but also raises security concerns for a town already on high alert. In February this year, a Russian citizen was arrested photographing military installations in Kirkenes.

Are Norwegian port representatives and other officials up to negotiating a complex deal with a Chinese company such as Cosco without giving away the store, should the suitors present a strong offer?

As attractive as Chinese money can be, let’s hope that strategic sense might sometimes prevail.

[cas-fulleditmode]

can anyone here who is really into computers give me their thoughts on this pre-built desktop pc i'm looking into buying?

i've been going back and forth a lot because i'm not sure how future-proof this one really is.

[primordialsoundmeditation]

13th August : Lions Rest and Lions Roar

Now that wer are through the 2024 Lions Gate megaportal it is time to rest, relax and ground as we shift towards Virgo season.

I love this time with its gentle energy of the Divine Feminine and the Lion Power.

The Lion is at rest and sits at the feet of the Lady, to protect her and do her bidding.

She in turn is filled with Light and Love and Joy as the Earth changes season moving towards the cool of Autumn in the North and the softness of Spring in the South. It is truly a time to refesh the Soul.

Please work on grounding and staying in balance. After my fall, I have been taking time out to rebalance and recalibrate. This is so important now.

The LIon's Roar is heard in the bush when a Lion wants you to know that he and his family are there. In this perioid we are working on a major healing of the Throat and Sacral chakra, so that we can "roar" with all our power and express and create who and what we are.

So, in this quiet time, we will be healing and recalibrating these two chakras so that we can create even more powerfully in the New Earth.

Let the Lady support you and let the Lion protect you.

Much love to everyone.

<3 <3 <3 <3

Celia Fenn

Yadira Torres Navarro

[allaboutherock2011]

Taiwanese metal titans CHTHONIC release live EP MEGAPORTAL2425

Taiwan’s metal masters CHTHONIC have released a new live EP MEGAPORTAL2425, including five select songs from the band’s appearances at 2024 and 2025 Megaport Festivals. Stream: https://lnk.to/muziu-0524 There has been a consistent theme in CHTHONIC’s performances at Megaport Festival over the past two years – breaking the boundary between reality and illusion, and bringing onto stage the virtual.…

[genhikosaka]

Live archive 2025 [Past]

・2月9日 GARDEN新木場FACTORY PLASTICZOOMS「BODY」

・2月18日 渋谷LUSH miida ・2月22日 渋谷WWWX とた「ESSELECTION」 ・3月13日(木) Zepp Shinjuku

Chilli Beans. 「"ライブナタリー"ストレイテナー× Chilli Beans.」

・3月30日 台湾 高雄 Chilli Beans.「2025 大港開唱 MEGAPORT FestivalＸ國泰世華銀行」 ・4月19日 荒川戸田橋緑地バーベキュー場 yama「band apart pre."ITa FES"」 ・4月25日 渋谷LUSH miida「miida pre."すごい！夢みたい...Vol.1」

・5月3日 下北沢MOSAiC anna calla「Mixmash release ONEMAN live」

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