Might Take Weeks" - Suez Canal Still Closed As "Enormous Beached Whale" Ship Remains Stuck
Another man made disaster is coming?If the shipping must go around Africa look for higher prices!
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The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) reported Thursday it had suspended traffic along the 120-mile long canal while eight tugboats worked to free a massive containership, according to Reuters.
SCA's statement said thirteen vessels had sailed south along the canal on Wednesday and were waiting in the canal's lakes until the containership was refloated. On either side of the canal's entrances, dozens of ships are piling up as the world's most crucial shipping lane grinds to a halt.
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Herman was based out of Long Beach, CA for decades. We could see it when we'd drive home form my grandmother's house. The only reason I took that photo is because the paint scheme was no long battleship grey, which caught me by surprise. There is another huge floating crane operating in Panama called Hercules, but I'm not sure I have a photo.
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why don't they chain helicopters to the deck, fire them up and fly it out of there. UFO's do it in the Bermuda triangle all the time.
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montanajoe: 31516170747675/comments/31516210583195
why don't they chain helicopters to the deck, fire them up and fly it out of there. UFO's do it in the Bermuda triangle all the time.
Or, they could just fill all of those containers with helium 🤣
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If they don't get it now with the full moon tides, that ship is liable to break its spine - and then we're talking months to get it out of there a piece at a time.
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an article from Ahram online an Egyptian news outlet
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Human error may be behind ship blocking Suez Canal: authorities
March 28, 2021 | 3:34pm | Updated
Suez Canal Authority Chairman Osama Rabie says the Ever Given container ship could have committed "technical or human errors," that caused it to wedge between the banks of the canal.
EPA/SUEZ CANAL AUTHORITY/Handout
The massive container ship that is blocking the Suez Canal may have run aground because of human error, not a strong windstorm, Egyptian officials said this weekend.
Initial reports said the 1,300-foot, 200,000-ton Ever Given got wedged in the shipping channel because of high winds and a sandstorm that affected visibility.
But the head of the Suez Canal Authority now says weather conditions were “not the main reasons” for the ship’s grounding.
“There may have been technical or human errors,” the canal authority’s Chairman Osama Rabie told reporters Saturday, without giving more details, the BBC reported.
“All of these factors will become apparent in the investigation.”
Meanwhile, tug boats and dredgers continued working to push and pull the massive ship from the spot where it’s been wedged between the banks of the normally-busy canal since Tuesday.At least 369 boats are lined up in a massive traffic jam waiting to pass through the canal, which handles up to 15 percent of world trade.
There are at least 369 boats waiting in a traffic jam behind the stuck Ever Given container ship on the Suez Canal.A mass of rock underneath the ship’s bow is making the effort difficult. Dredgers have shifted more than 950,000 cubic feet of sand and dug down nearly 60 feet, but the ship remains stuck.
Still, there are tiny signs of progress, the Suez Canal Authority said.
“The rudder was not moving and it is now moving, the propeller is working now, there was no water underneath the bow, and now there is water under it, and yesterday there was a 4-meter deviation in the bow and the stern,” Rabie told Egyptian state TV.
Video posted on Twitter showed tug boats honking their horns in celebration.
Authorities brought two more powerful tugboats in, bringing the total to 14 tugs working on moving the ship. The backup is costing the canal about $15 million daily.The Egyptian government also ordered preparations to start offloading some of the ship’s 18,300 containers to lighten its load. That effort wouldn’t start until Monday.
It will require moving the containers either to another ship or possibly the canal bank. Special equipment, including a crane more than 200 feet high, would be needed and the process could take weeks, the BBC reported.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon said Sunday th
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Over 18000 containers is mindboggling!
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Over 18000 containers is mindboggling!
And all full of chinese crap for walmart
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I assume the captain has sent a resume to Indeed.
Speaking of canals, the weirdest thing I'd seen in a while was when I was visiting a pal that lives just outside of Athens a few months a year. We traveled about an hour west of Athens and visited the Isthmia Bridge Cafe located along the Corinth Canal. The canal separates the Aegean Sea and the Ionian Sea (though technically there are gulfs involved). The bridge next to the cafe was open to foot and auto traffic but would submerge when a ship needed to pass.
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Is any cargo stored below decks on that Cargo Container Vessel?
Would seem top heavy, if not.
Just curious.
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My news feed (makes me sound important) says the ship has been freed in the canal.
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Super moon lifted tides to unlodge the Super Container ship! Hurray! Toliet paper is coming soon!
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14484562/suez-canal-ship-refloated-freed/
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Is any cargo stored below decks on that Cargo Container Vessel?
Would seem top heavy, if not.
Just curious.
Containers fill the hold from near the keel to the top of the hull, Ken.
Then they are stacked on the hatch covers.
Stowage plan for container ships - Wikipedia
Stowage plan for container ships or bay plan is the plan and method by which different types of container vessels are loaded with containers of specific standard sizes. The plans are used to maximize the economy of shipping and safety on board.3 -
It's a floating and traffic is flowing.
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