Posted on 03/27/2021 5:17:40 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
Of all the millions of tons of cargo that's piled up in the Suez Canal, none is more delicate than the animals crammed into the hulls of several of the ships.
Little information is available, with neither canal officials nor shipping executives willing to talk, but data compiled by Bloomberg indicate as many as 10 vessels stuck in and around the canal could be carrying livestock. Given the Europe-to-Saudi Arabia itinerary, they are most likely carrying sheep.
Cattle can also be transported by sea, and ships would generally have at least two or three days' worth of extra hay or feed on board, said Bob Bishop, president of the Livestock Exporters Association of the USA.
If the feed runs out, they could get more from a port while refuelling. A ship that can't get to dock could get feed from a barge in what's known as "midstream loading," he said.
Weighing options "If you're getting low on feed, I would look at coming into port and putting on extra feed," Bishop said by phone from New York. "If I was the owner of the sheep, I would try to find a country that needed sheep," he added.
"The shorter route would be back to Romania." At least 10 vessels designed to ship animals are parked near the shuttered canal, and several appear to be en route between Romania and Saudi Arabia, according to ship data compiled by Bloomberg.
The ones departing the European country are likely carrying sheep, which Saudi Arabia purchases so that the animals can be slaughtered according to religious preferences. Those travelling the other direction could be empty vessels.
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Having visited Darwin and Perth Australia many times the common site in the harbor are the Livestock Express ships who are hauling live animals to the Middle East.
It makes no economic sense to transport live animals. But given the Muslim dictate of Halal, they subject the animals to such a voyage.
When I was on a voyage to the Middle East I was told about these ships. Animals die enroute and are tossed overboard. Sharks feed on the carcasses.
Paging Noah, please pick up the white courtesy phone
I met a guy from TX that had three huge feeder lots and also shipped cattle over seas.
I guess he quit doing that because of the loss of cattle aboard during the trip.
The GD crew wouldnt look after them properly. They wouldnt get fresh water to them like they should.
What they did with the dead animals I do not know.
For some years the port of Eastport, Maine shipped pregnant cows to Turkey. Concered with Mad Cow disease, the EU blocked the export of meat products from the US to members of the EU. However, pregnant cows could be shipped to Turkey and give birth; the calves were fattened and exported to Europe.
Two of each kind?
“How long can you tread water?”
Let them all swim to shore and the ship may just become unstuck.
I wonder if any people are being smuggled in any of the containers?
That what I’m thinking now.. internet roomer was this “blockage” was not so accidental..but had something to do with human smuggling... I was not really buying in.. but this story does raise a bit more of a flag
The livestock ships are waiting for the container ship (which does not carry livestock) to be unstuck.
Is shipping live animals commonly...that be expensive versus shipping apnimals already slaughtered and processed
That has happened. I once found a container, stowed below deck, that had a small hole hollowed out from the inside of the container. No telling when that happened. It could have been while transiting on a truck , train or ship.
Some containers travel all over the world.
We even carried live snakes in containers.
"Riiiiiight! What's a 'cubit'?"
I saw a post today indicating Israeli medics have been dispatched to the ship. A photo taken from a helicopter overhead showed containers open with what appears to be lots of children out on the deck. They may be trafficking children in the containers and realized with the ship jammed into the canal, they would die before the ship is "unstuck" and the "cargo" delivered.
See post 2 😩
Horrid!!! Just horrid.
Did you see that post/photo, here?
“photo taken from a helicopter overhead showed containers open with what appears to be lots of children out on the deck”
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