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Suez C anal blockage

About 10% of global trade has ground to a halt due to this event

Simply look at traffic on either side and see what a cluster it has become
 
Yakoo752 said:
About 10% of global trade has ground to a halt due to this event

Simply look at traffic on either side and see what a cluster it has become
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That is incredible. The Ever Given is one of the largest container ships in the world and can carry over 20,000 twenty foot containers itself. The amount of cargo stuck on either side of the canal must be tremendous.
 
Looks like all of the salvage operations they tried yesterday failed- Boskalis needs larger suction dredges to float both ends. Even the upcoming king tides won't do it. Looks like it's either wait for bigger dredges or try a trans-shipping operation to offload some of the cargo and lighten the vessel, but that'll take even longer to arrange.
 
They have all there heavy equipment on it now.
Should be just a matter of hours.:laughing
 

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buellistic said:
They have all there heavy equipment on it now.
Should be just a matter of hours.:laughing
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two wheel tramp said:
Damn. That really puts the size of this vessel into perspective!!! :wow
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it does though

Ships like this run a bulbous bow

It's like an iceberg... you can only see the top 10% of it.

There is so much buried in that sand it's nuts. That's the part the excavator is trying to dig out.
 
buellistic said:
They have all there heavy equipment on it now.
Should be just a matter of hours.:laughing
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I don't exactly see a better-knowing country just coming up there with a monstrous equipment-carrying AirShip to help them do I? Why, you have the capability?


Oh wait let's approach them with a ship, which carries better equipment :laughing

... point is, maybe it IS all they got. They didn't exactly prepare and thought they need to have a dry dock, on the ready, in the middle of the canal




Yakoo752 said:
There is so much buried in that sand it's nuts. That's the part the excavator is trying to dig out.
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exactly, maybe it is a reasonable approach to do it, actually
 
Yakoo752 said:
it does though

Ships like this run a bulbous bow

It's like an iceberg... you can only see the top 10% of it.

There is so much buried in that sand it's nuts. That's the part the excavator is trying to dig out.
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Yup, and the other part is that the canal bottom is not flat all the way across, the middle 2/3 is pretty flat, the outer 1/6 on each side is steeply pitched. The dirt we see is the tip of the iceberg. That ship drove itself up onto a frikkn dirtberg. :laughing

I could see it taking days to get half the containers unloaded.
 
afm199 said:
I could see it taking days to get half the containers unloaded.
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I don't know if the ground that surrounds the canal can support significant heavy machinery

Makes me think they will have to use helicopters

Days might be an understatement :dunno
 
afm199 said:
Yup, and the other part is that the canal bottom is not flat all the way across, the middle 2/3 is pretty flat, the outer 1/6 on each side is steeply pitched. The dirt we see is the tip of the iceberg. That ship drove itself up onto a frikkn dirtberg. :laughing

I could see it taking days to get half the containers unloaded.
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I could see it taking days (or weeks) just to get the equipment capable of unloading the containers there.

There is no way that the company who owns the ship will pay anywhere near as much lost revenue that they've created. It will be interesting to see how this progresses even after it's moved out of the way.
 
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