Suez canal blocked

[bladefd]

Some crazy story of a ship stuck sideways in the suez canal..


The 1,312-foot, 200,000 metric ton Ever Given – nearly a quarter-mile long – created a shipper's nightmare and captured the public's imagination when it blocked the canal on Tuesday and caused a traffic jam of more than 200 ships as of Friday.

An attempt to refloat the ship Friday failed, said Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, the company that manages the vessel. CNN said the U.S. Navy has offered to assist.

How did it happen?

The Ever Given is stuck near the Egyptian city of Suez, about 3.7 miles north of the canal's southern entrance. It's in a narrow section of the canal, about 985 feet wide.

Owners say high wind in a sandstorm pushed the ship sideways, wedging it into both banks of the waterway. Containers stacked on deck may have acted as a sail.

The bow is aground on the eastern bank and the stern is on the western.

Why is it important?

The canal is a 120-mile-long shipping link between the Mediterranean and Red seas that carries 10% to 12% of commercial shipping and about 2.5% of the world’s oil.https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2021/03/26/how-evergreens-ship-got-stuck-in-the-suez-canal/7010375002/

Expect costs of everything to rise if ship is not freed soon within the next couple days.

[Patrick Chewing]

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[highwhey]

Costs of common materials were already on the rise (rapidly so) - if this blockage continues, world is fukked.

[highwhey]

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:roll:

[Long Duck Dong]

It's starting to move now. It shouldn't be too much longer

[ZenMaster]

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[DoctorP]

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:lol

he would say that shit

The Legend of Trump

[SATAN]

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:oldlol:

[Axe]

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:roll:

[72-10]

on a related note, the Gaza Strip is too green even to drive along

[bladefd]

Well, there's the weekend and they still can't move the ship. The number of ships stuck behind in queue is now up to 369 ships, and it keeps building up.

They brought in 14 tugboats trying to pull the massive ship out couple feet at a time, and they are going to remove the containers to make the ship lighter. Removing that many containers could take couple weeks, but they probably don't need to remove all of them. Just enough to make it easier on the tugboats. I guess they could bring in even more tugboats.. Ship is quarter of a mile long - about 500ft longer than the Titanic's length

[Long Duck Dong]

The ship has been straightened out and is being pulled out now. Estimates vary wildly on how long it will take to clear the backlog of ships waiting to get through. 3-10 days are what most are saying

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[bluechox2]

need global warming to raise sea levels

[Axe]

It got cleared now.

[baudkarma]

need global warming to raise sea levels

Pretty close! Authorities said that one factor which helped free the ship was the "supermoon" on Sunday, a full moon which created an unusually high tide.

[Long Duck Dong]

The Japanese ship, it's cargo and 25 man crew, all from India, are being held by Egyptian authorities until they pay up to one billion(US$) in fines.

[highwhey]

The Japanese ship, it's cargo and 25 man crew, all from India, are being held by Egyptian authorities until they pay up to one billion(US$) in fines.

:eek: 1 billy

i'd be on the run for that amount. abandon ship.

[Long Duck Dong]

It's happened again....

[highwhey]

It's happened again....

Damn it fatrick

[jstern]

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:roll:

I never saw this. This was during my retirement from ISH.

It's funny because it's like, "Oh no, the world is ****ed." Chaos. Goods are going to go up. And then Trump, "Just ram it with another ship."

Problem solved with a simple solution.

[FultzNationRISE]

:roll:

I never saw this. This was during my retirement from ISH.

It's funny because it's like, "Oh no, the world is ****ed." Chaos. Goods are going to go up. And then Trump, "Just ram it with another ship."

Problem solved with a simple solution.


Appreciate you deconstructing that one for us, jstern.

[Patrick Chewing]

Damn it fatrick

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[jstern]

Appreciate you deconstructing that one for us, jstern.

Thank you for dropping my name.

[Patrick Chewing]

Sometimes my canal gets blocked and that's when I load up on the fiber.

[highwhey]

Appreciate you deconstructing that one for us, jstern.


Thank you for dropping my name.

hey pal, i think you dropped your lithium
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[Chick Stern]

Sometimes my canal gets blocked and that's when I load up on the fiber.
I had read that bottoming will lead to that. Thanks for clarifying.