Suez Canal BLOCKED by Taiwanese owned container ship.

The ship had been hit with a crosswind, which they say caused the grounding.

The ship looks seriously overloaded to me. Lots of windage.

I believe that these ships can jettison their shipping containers while at sea, which is done to allow the ship to survive severe storms.

If so, they should just dump a good part of that load overboard, refloat the ship and clear the canal.

Clearing the jettisoned containers should not be difficult with tug boats.

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Evergreen freight company has existed since almost forever.

I have sen these containers everywhere in all parts of the world.

Wiki

The company was founded 1 September 1968 by Yung-Fa Chang. Services began with a single cargo vessel named Central Trust, which operated a "go-anywhere" service.[7] A second vessel was added in 1969, and used on Middle East services.[7]

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I located the ship on the Marine Traffic. She is really stuck in the middle further down the Canal. There's lots of tugs there to the rescue.

Going to take some time getting her out of there.

EG SUZ
NL RTM
ATA:
2021-03-24 03:34
ETA:
2021-03-31 04:00

Status:
Stopped
Speed/Course:
0.1kn / 0°
Draught:
15.7m

Received: 1 hour, 21 minutes ago

Direct link to vessel:

[link to www.marinetraffic.com (secure)]

Latest Position

Position Received: 2021-03-24 11:11 UTC
1 hour, 23 minutes ago

Vessel's Local Time:
2021-03-24 13:11 LT (UTC +2)

Area: RSEA - Red Sea

Current Port: SUEZ CANAL

Latitude / Longitude: 30.0176° / 32.58013°

Status: Stopped

Speed/Course: 0.1 kn / 58 °

AIS Source: Terrestrial AIS

This still seems intentional.

Quite the 'Suez moment.'

There is a maximum amount of rudder steering possible at any given speed. Obviously, they move slowly through canals.

Easy to imagine a cross wind hitting that enormous pile of shipping containers and creating a sideways force vector that the steering force can't handle. Also, the rudders are at the back of the ship and the wind force is all along with sides.

I had a boat with a lot of freeboard and canvas. Docking in a crosswind was impossible, unless you came in pretty fast to maintain strong rudder control. Then you prayed the reverse gear worked and the engine did not stall.

A powerful tug boat at the bow might have a chance to overcome the windage, but even still there is a limit.

I would shove about a third of those containers over the side and see if it doesn't float free.

By the way, if someone wanted to block the canal, they wouldn't use their own ship. They would blow up someone else's ship in the canal. And they would blow some big holes below the waterline to prevent rapid recovery of the vessel.

Wiki page says its classification is a "Golden" ship...

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Wow, that article said they had 50 mph cross winds.
That will certainly push the ship into the bank unless you have one heck of a towboat pushing on the bow. .

Kind of surprising that only 1 ship went aground.

Last Edited by JustmeTX on 03/24/2021 04:57 PM

ONLY A "MOAB" WILL MOVE IT ..TO THE SIDE...HAS 2 B BURIED A BIT BELOW IT..SHORRY.UH.

They don't have wind warning and restrictions?

The pieces on the board are preparing for end game...

I have a really good feeling about this




Or I’m high on Hopium



Either way I feel good about this one



Hello Hillary

Goodbye Hillary

Hey, Jesus drank wine, didn't he? Enjoy ;)

Some on telegram are saying this a White Hat operation (intentional block) and the Storm is beginning.

We'll see.

Im sure its not from Tennesse like you say.

Not sure how good the weather service is over there in Africa.

Also, they have desert winds, what do they call them, a Haboob or something? Probably kick up fast with almost no warning.

Suez canal: race to free 'beached whale' container ship enters third day

Head of dredging company says Ever Given is stuck on the sand and containers may have to be unloaded, a process that could take weeks

The mission to unblock the Suez canal after a vast container ship became wedged has entered its third day, as pressure builds on authorities to get one of the world’s key trade arteries flowing again.

Efforts to refloat the 220,000-ton, 400-metre-long Ever Given resumed on Thursday after a brief overnight suspension, amid fears the operation could potentially take weeks if the vessel needs to be unloaded.

The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said on Thursday it had suspended traffic temporarily while eight tugs worked to free it. Thirteen ships had sailed south along the canal on Wednesday and are waiting in lakes until the Ever Given is released.
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Big ship getting stuck in a too-narrow waterway has spawned invocations of poetry, the pandemic and Austin Powers

It is the David and Goliath story of our times: one of biggest container ships in the world got stuck in the Suez canal, blocking a route through which 12% of the world’s trade passes – and sent to rescue it was a very small bulldozer.

Online, the slow-moving crisis was quickly turned into a learning experience: memes 101. The overarching theme was futility: of work in the face of a never-ending number of things to do; of $1,400 stimulus checks in response to the coronavirus pandemic; of drinking in the face of “the incessant, crushing weight of existence”.

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Big boys to the rescue

Picture:

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Yep , that guy on youtube "Ice Age Farmer" has been saying for months there's going to be a planned "food shortage"

Giant ship blocking Suez canal partially refloated

Tugboats work to free 400-metre ‘megaship’ Ever Given as vessels gather at either end of key waterway

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Eight tugboats were working to free the vessel, blocking a lane key to Asia-Europe trade through which about 50 ships a day passed in 2019, according to Egyptian government statistics.

GAC, a Dubai-based marine services company, said the Ever Given had been partially refloated and moved alongside the canal bank, citing information from the SCA.

“Convoys and traffic are expected to resume as soon as the vessel is towed to another position,” GAC said on its website.

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https://twitter.com/_/status/1374768670514159616

3 factors of disaster:
resource depletion.
population density.
gender imbalance.

Ship filling needs of population density.
Bulldozer = local resources.
Gender imbalance = woman boat driver (haha).

See my "memes" poetry post above.

Also noticed, China has been fishing off the coast of Africa, depleting the seal population.

When the ecosystem fails there is famine.
When container ships and distribution fails there is famine.
When there is lack of farmland...
and so on. All the signs are there/here.

Shows the remnants of the dust storm.

She's wedged pretty good.

Backed up traffic is heavy! Panama Canal offering alternative route, time added on that detour?

All seems to indicate that she will be moved to a point that traffic can resume and ships can sail through the canal again.