Massive cargo ship becomes wedged, blocks Egypt’s Suez Canal

The blame is on high winds. High winds common there? Never happen before to other ships. The pilot fell asleep or was driving and texting.

https://apnews.com/article/cargo-ship-blocks-egypt-suez-canal-5957543bb555ab31c14d56ad09f98810

Unstucking it will be like this.

I recall the ancient Greeks and Romans having this problem all the time with their merchant ships being stuck as well in the Suez Canal.

Especially their aircraft carriers.

I wonder if there are any U.S. military ships being held up by this.

The canal was less wide and less deep and they didn't have sonar.

True. There was no sonar but the Romans and Greeks could still use towed underwater arrays made of aluminum to reflect any sound waves that were close to the ship.

We locked through the Soo locks with several other ships. Our 180 foot buoy tender was the little ship.

search aircraft carrier Suez Canal

awesom!

It's still stuck and it may take weeks. Remove the containers on it and make it lighter. Or tie ropes to the end of it and connect the other ends to tug boats and pull backward.

So...I guess the Suez Canal has a...


Wedgie!

It won't be a good day, week or few months for whichever company owns that cargo ship.

I would send them an e-mail stating that just in case they didn't think of it.

The way around Africa is expensive and can take 41 days. But how much is the cost of all those ships waiting for weeks in the traffic jam and not delivering their cargo?

https://www.businessinsider.com/sue...r-round-africa-as-ship-blocks-way-2021-3

I'm certain that all shipping companies have already taken the longer distance and delay into account and made a business decision. They aren't dummies. Those that can re-route economically will already have done so.

Are my Amazon packages on one of those ships?

It's really a gamble for them.
How long will the ship be stuck? is the massive big question that nobody has a good answer to.

Excellent! You a good man to help them.

QFT

You might consider sending them some of that popcorn. Oh and ...



By golly, imagine that stuck sideways!

Easiest way to get it unstuck. Land based winch lines on opposite sides of the canal. No tug or dozens of them have the juice to move it. Unloading it. Take to long.

WD-40
ALL OF IT!!!!!!

https://tenor.com/view/yelling-leon-the-professional-pissed-off-angry-screaming-gif-15144549

One minute.

Can you imagine how many shipments of illegal arms and drugs are going to be late because of this? There are going to be some pissed off traffickers..

My Waygu beef will be rotted weeks on those ships.

Pictures:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/26/world/gallery/suez-canal-stuck-ship/index.html

Geography can be very helpful, ya might wanna brush up on it.

But, maybe the Indian scammers are branching out...sacred cow Waygu!

Is your child texting about the Suez Canal boat?

BRB - Bow Really Bulbous
LOL - Lack Of Leeway
CBA - Canal Blocked, #%&*$#
LMFAO - Lol, Mother #%&*$# Aground, Oh!
BYOB - Boat Yeeted On Bank
WTF - What The Frigate
BTW - Boat Totally Wasted

Thanks to Chucky's heads up, our British Forces have engineered a solution.

That looks like a plan to me! Let's DO IT!

I read this is costing the world economy $400 million an hour.

Maybe it should just be blown to pieces...

The needed fix:

Fate is sometimes ironic.

In 2020, sea freight increased 150% due to the pandemic crisis... then in 2021 a ship blocks the Suez Canal for weeks.

Buy the toilet paper and coffee while you can

https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...oilet-paper-coffee-shortages/7030623002/

Man...what the heck am I gonna do without my Bangladesh toilet paper?

Or my Indian coffee?

USA Today experts went to the same schools as you methinks... you know, the ones where geography is "flexible".

Don't count all your chickens https://www.wsj.com/articles/ship-blocking-suez-canal-is-partially-freed-11616989503

They've got chickens on board too? Perhaps if the crew could get them all to flutter in the air at the same time it would lighten the boat enough to be finally freed.
Then perhaps I will get the thingummy I ordered, but don't really need.

Interesting post https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/steering-worlds-biggest-ships-suez-canal-cmd/index.html

Fantastic! I don't have to make a toilet paper run! https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/29/sue...er-cargo-ship-ever-given-is-removed.html

There are ships North of it waiting to go South and ships South of it waiting to go North.

Is the canal wide enough for two way traffic? It's not how they do it? Send a ship that's North of it to go South and once it exit, send the next ship in line South of it to go North? Only one ship can be in the canal at a time?

Looks like them Duke boys are at it again!

Some good news

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy...-stuck-in-suez-canal-partially-refloated

We too can get that cargo container ship stuck

https://www.boston.com/news/local-n...-viral-app-boston-public-library-curator

https://evergiven-everywhere.glitch.me/

Seems like that public library curator has a lot of time on his hands.....

Says the guy with over 113,000 posts.

Making posts is a lot easier and less time consuming than programming an app! And besides, my posts are spread out over 20 years.

The ship is owned by a Japanese company, operated by a Taiwanese company, with a crew of 25 Indians.

https://nypost.com/2021/03/31/ever-given-crew-may-face-house-arrest-in-suez-canal-probe/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Suez_Canal_obstruction

Globalization FTW!

You forgot, registered in Panama.

Why many ships register in Panama? I see that on passengers cruise ships too. Something special about Panama?

Cheaper registration fees, lower taxes, and usually lower regulations than other countries.

Also, "easy" inspections.

Let's move to Panama and we don't have to pay taxes!

Where did you get that ?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-28558480 and https://www.panama-offshore-services.com/benefits_and_advantages_of_ship_registry_in_panama/

Don't bother OG. It's like pissing into the wind.

Learn something new every day.

So in a nutshell, shipping companies and cruise lines register their ships in countries where it simply costs less to do so. Imagine that!

More training and experience before someone is put behind the wheel of one of these ships at this Evergreen ship company?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/14/ever-forward-container-ship-aground-us