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[Ark]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/suez-canal-ever-given-1.5961615

Bulker and Russian military tanker collide in Suez Canal

Second accident reported in Egyptian waterway on Tuesday, following Evergreen boxship grounding

www.tradewindsnews.com

A container ship almost as long as the height of the CN Tower and twice as heavy is wedged across Egypt's Suez Canal, having blocked all traffic in the vital waterway for more than a day — with no sign that it's moving any time soon.

The MV Ever Given, a Panama-flagged ship that carries cargo between Asia and Europe, ran aground Tuesday in the narrow, man-made canal dividing continental Africa from the Sinai Peninsula. Images showed the ship's bow had collided with the eastern wall of the canal, while its stern looked lodged against the western wall.

Nearly a dozen tugboats worked together to try to nudge the obstruction out of the way as ships hoping to enter the waterway began lining up in the Mediterranean and Red Seas.

An earlier report Wednesday suggested that the ship has been "partially refloated," but Ahmed Mekawy, an assistant manager at marine agency GAC, says that report was wrong, and that the 400-metre-long ship with a sailing weight of 220,000 tonnes was still very much stuck late in the day local time.

Another lesson in the frailty of the global supply chain. Something like 10% of global shipping ground to a halt and ships running into each other because one goofball ran aground.

 

[actaeon277]

That's costing companies ×$$$$$

 

[rooster]

Evergreen= CIA

 

[Ark]

Evergreen= CIA

Not to get too conspiratorial, but as a direct result of this the coast of a nation with a certain rebel organization known to possess certain anti-ship munitions is now a parking lot of high value targets.

 

[rooster]

it’s not really a conspiracy theory, more of a proven fact that evergreen international aviation was linked to the CIA and was the aviation branch of the shipping company evergreen. Evergreen marine is the marine shipping branch.

only conspiracy “theory” here is the why.

Redirect Notice

www.google.com

 

[Ark]

Egypt's only excavator is on the job.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

They should talk to Buick and some other car manufacturers that have those automatic parallel parking functions. Might do them some good.

 

[wcd]

Egypt's only excavator is on the job.

Wow that is something else! The sheer mass.

 

[Tyler-The-Piker]

 

[actaeon277]

F'n funny.

 

[churchmouse]

With all of the high tech directional thrusters those ships have at their command WTAF happened here.

 

[actaeon277]

With all of the high tech directional thrusters those ships have at their command WTAF happened here.

Mass and Inertia.

 

[actaeon277]

Anyone want to guess if that Captain is still employed.

 

[Ark]

With all of the high tech directional thrusters those ships have at their command WTAF happened here.

The official story, as I understand it, is 30+ mph crosswind on that massive sail area drove it into the bank and then presumably inertia swung the rear end around.

 

[churchmouse]

Mass and Inertia.

Understood but still. Someone lost the handle on this one or there was a massive mechanical failure.

 

[tsm]

Understood but still. Someone lost the handle on this one or there was a massive mechanical failure.

But they pay the captain $15 an hour!

 

[Cameramonkey]

Understood but still. Someone lost the handle on this one or there was a massive mechanical failure.

Or the PC crashed. A superyacht owned by the guy who founded Capri Sun, had its computer controlled guidance system crash as they were entering port. This is the effect.

 

[actaeon277]

"New Ways" are BETTER.

Till they're not.

 

[Magyars]

May take weeks to fix the problem. There goes JIT inventory.

 

[Magyars]

Do you believe in coincidences?

Cargo ship draws giant penis in Red Sea then becomes wedged in Suez Canal

The 200,000-tonne mega ship MV Ever Given has become stuck in the Suez Canal, sparking fears of a “catastrophic” meltdown in world trade and a spike in oil prices.

www.news.com.au