Container Ship Meets with an Accident, Clogging the Suez Canal

TheLostSwede · Mar 25, 2021

They really got stuck in the mud...

Dislodging the huge ship blocking the Suez Canal could take 'days to weeks,' as the traffic jam builds | CNN

Shipping experts believe it could take days or even weeks to free the 224,000-ton vessel that is wedged across the Suez Canal, blocking one of the world's busiest waterways since Tuesday.

edition.cnn.com

windwhirl · Mar 25, 2021

TheLostSwede said:
They really got stuck in the mud...

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Dislodging the huge ship blocking the Suez Canal could take 'days to weeks,' as the traffic jam builds | CNN

Shipping experts believe it could take days or even weeks to free the 224,000-ton vessel that is wedged across the Suez Canal, blocking one of the world's busiest waterways since Tuesday.

edition.cnn.com

So... should we expect another round of price increases because the stupid big ship can't get out of the way, thus blocking delivery of, well, everything that goes through there?

djisas · Mar 25, 2021

No more cpus and gpus on the foreseeable future...

A Computer Guy · Mar 25, 2021

TheLostSwede said:
They really got stuck in the mud...

View attachment 193855

Dislodging the huge ship blocking the Suez Canal could take 'days to weeks,' as the traffic jam builds | CNN

Shipping experts believe it could take days or even weeks to free the 224,000-ton vessel that is wedged across the Suez Canal, blocking one of the world's busiest waterways since Tuesday.

edition.cnn.com

That's ok all they need to do is throw the anchor into the middle of the channel and crank their way off the mud.

windwhirl · Mar 25, 2021

A Computer Guy said:
That's ok all they need to do is throw the anchor into the middle of the channel and crank their way off the mud.

I know you said that as a joke, but imagine if they actually did it that way :roll:

A Computer Guy · Mar 25, 2021

windwhirl said:
I know you said that as a joke, but imagine if they actually did it that way

No joke. real experience however with a much smaller Brigantine ship. :toast:

Caring1 · Mar 25, 2021

If the tug boats can't move them, why not tie a line to the nearest cargo vessel and use their vast H.P. to tow the aft into the middle of the channel?

bug · Mar 25, 2021

Caring1 said:
If the tug boats can't move them, why not tie a line to the nearest cargo vessel and use their vast H.P. to tow the aft into the middle of the channel?

Tie a line... to what? Can you imagine how much pressure that would put on the anchor point?

metalfiber · Mar 26, 2021

When my Suez Canal gets clogged i'll take an Ex-lax.

Gmr_Chick · Mar 26, 2021

metalfiber said:
When my Suez Canal gets clogged i'll take an Ex-lax.

Oh. Mah. Gawd! :respect:

Great minds think alike, LOL! :toast:

Prima.Vera · Mar 26, 2021

They should unload their cargo somehow, and then maybe it will start float again out of that mud.... just guessing

R0H1T · Mar 26, 2021

windwhirl said:
So... should we expect another round of price increases because the stupid big ship can't get out of the way, thus blocking delivery of, well, everything that goes through there?

Obviously not, the next round of price increase is due to ~

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Ta-daa!

Deleted member 178884 · Mar 26, 2021

bug · Mar 26, 2021

Fwiw, I love how people like to think they have a better solution than all the canal operators and affected shipping companies put together. On a computer related forum, no less :rockout:

windwhirl · Mar 26, 2021

bug said:
Fwiw, I love how people like to think they have a better solution than all the canal operators and affected shipping companies put together. On a computer related forum, no less

Well, we all have supercomputers doing the math and the science in the background lol

djisas · Mar 26, 2021

windwhirl said:
Well, we all have supercomputers doing the math and the science in the background lol

We have a new Folding home objective guys...

windwhirl · Mar 26, 2021

djisas said:
We have a new Folding home objective guys...

We'll call it "towing @ home" lol

dragontamer5788 · Mar 26, 2021

Just in case anyone needs a to-scale image of what they're dealing with.

_L_ said:
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I think everyone knows that the excavator wasn't going to do jack diddly, but they brought it anyway. Today, there's a dredging ship that's digging for reals.

A specialised suction dredger, which can shift 2,000 cubic metres (70,000 cubic feet) of material every hour, arrived on site on Thursday, it added.

Caring1 · Mar 26, 2021

bug said:
Fwiw, I love how people like to think they have a better solution than all the canal operators and affected shipping companies put together. On a computer related forum, no less

Sometimes it takes an outsider to put a new perspective on things.

dragontamer5788 · Mar 29, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/suez-ship-canal-ever-given-stuck/2021/03/29/0dd5babe-9017-11eb-aadc-af78701a30ca_story.html

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1376379460627398657

And off it goes again!! Now to count the $Billions that were lost, lol.

Deleted member 205776 · Mar 29, 2021

dragontamer5788 said:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/suez-ship-canal-ever-given-stuck/2021/03/29/0dd5babe-9017-11eb-aadc-af78701a30ca_story.html

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1376379460627398657

And off it goes again!! Now to count the $Billions that were lost, lol.

I guess they finally found out how to do this.

Why_Me · Mar 29, 2021

Alexa said:
I guess they finally found out how to do this.

There's zombies on that ship.

John Naylor · Mar 29, 2021

Caring1 said:
Meh, make the canal wider and then it can't be blocked by one ship.

"The Egyptian government launched construction in 2014 to expand and widen the Ballah Bypass for 35 km (22 mi) to speed up the canal's transit-time. The expansion intended to nearly double the capacity of the Suez Canal, from 49 to 97 ships per day.[9] At a cost of 59.4 billion Egyptian pounds (US$9bn)"

watzupken said:
This is a man made problem. If you want a ship of that size to go through, they should have considered accidents like this to happen. At this point, they will need quite a few tug boats to try and straighten the ship and tug it away if the engine is not working.

Had nothing to do with engines .... wind blew the ship sideways.

Will affect European markets more than US. As far as impact on US .... it shouldn't be great. For example.... deliveries to west coast don't have to use the Canal.

Malaysia => Miami, Florida = 51 days
Malaysia => Atlanta, Georgia 30-40 days
Malaysia => Boston Mass 30-36 days

Long beach, California, 30 - 35 days depending on Port of Origin
Malaysia => Oakland, California = 21 days

dragontamer5788 · Mar 29, 2021

John Naylor said:
Had nothing to do with engines .... wind blew the ship sideways.

I'm willing to bet on human error. Thousands (millions?) of other ships navigated that canal without running into the side and getting stuck.

I'm sure that wind conditions can make things harder for the boat, but that region is known for its high winds and sandstorms. Thousands (millions?) of other ships have had to brave the canal under those conditions.

R-T-B · Mar 29, 2021

Caring1 said:
Sometimes it takes an outsider to put a new perspective on things.

And more often they don't know squat... just sayin'

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Container Ship Meets with an Accident, Clogging the Suez Canal

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Dislodging the huge ship blocking the Suez Canal could take 'days to weeks,' as the traffic jam builds | CNN

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