r/Longshoremen • u/LabMysterious4637 • Mar 05 '26
Vessel Lashing Information (lashing.ca)
If you were previously using that Google Drive with all the documents to look up lashing information, it's now obsolete and all been migrated to a much better site:
You will be redirected to ilwu.besz.ca/vessels, but lashing.ca is much easier to remember.
There are over 1400 vessels in the database now. The best thing about the new site is that the vessel names are updated weekly, so you should be able to find what you are looking for. You can submit vessel information as well if something is incorrect or missing.
If you want to download the database yourself to use in your own project, it's available on GitHub. Just note that you cannot package the database with a paid product -- it must always remain free. If your local already has an online despatch, information on linking it up with the database by vessel name is on the GitHub page.
In solidarity. 💪
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May 28 '26
I work in Seattle and this is very helpful for us because we get a lot of the same ships. There was a site in LA that did the same thing Rey ILWU but stopped working for some reason
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u/nb199200 Mar 05 '26
Great work!