Wednesday, March 24th 2021
Container Ship Meets with an Accident, Clogging the Suez Canal
A super-heavy merchant ship has met with an accident, causing it to turn sideways, and effectively clogging the Suez Canal. The 400 m (1,312 ft) long ship turned sideways, causing it to run aground, into the canal's embankments. Why is this important? Notwithstanding the fact that the incident has caused the biggest backlog of ships at the Suez Canal, a vital trade-route linking Asia and Europe; the Panama-registered ship is operated by Taiwan's largest shipping company, Evergreen. The company, which also owns EVA Air, Taiwan's second largest airline, is believed to handle a bulk of the nation's electronics exports. This particular vessel, bearing the call-sign "Ever Given," was bound for the Dutch port of Rotterdam from China. A mariner aboard its trailing vessel, the Maersk Denver, captured this image of the beached ship. The disruption has caused several days worth shipping backlog, and could affect both ends of the supply-chain.
Sources:
BBC, Julianne Cona (Instagram)
79 Comments on Container Ship Meets with an Accident, Clogging the Suez Canal
I made-up that first part of the sentence, in case it wasn't obvious.So remember, air pressure is important when pushing air through tight crevices, such as the ones between containers, notwithstanding your radiator too.
Driving the prices further up...
Soon you can trade hardware with gold and precious gems...
Surprising how this is tech related... But oh well. Cool pic anyway.
Also, it is the single most cause of pollution in the world.
“It has been estimated that just one of these container ships, the length of around six football pitches, can produce the same amount of pollution as 50 million cars. The emissions from 15 of these mega-ships match those from all the cars in the world. And if the shipping industry were a country, it would be ranked between Germany and Japan as the sixth-largest contributor to CO2 emissions.”
I hope it gets stuck forever and they finally come up with different solutions and ways of transportation. This just isn't sustainable.
I'm going to do what any reasonable person can do, I'm going to march into my local MicroCenter and yell at them for not having enough GPUs! That'll fix this whole thing right away.....yeah, time to yell at people that can't do anything about it.
Securing civilan ports and ships like you can military ones would be impossible, so we are stuck with burning fuel for now :)