Also, they are actually maintaining the canal well. The problem is the ship rammed the bank pretty good, penetrated well inside and hit/got stuck on a giant rock that was well inside and thus encapsulated by the earth of the bank.
Posted on 03/28/2021 7:13:01 AM PDT by C210N
"Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has ordered that the shipping containers should be removed from the huge Ever Given ship currently trapped in the Suez Canal."
"Now al-Sissi has been left with no choice but to order preparations to unload the ship’s cargo in an attempt to help refloat the boat, according to a statement from the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), as per Reuters."
"The rudder was not moving and it is now moving, the propeller is working now, there was no water underneath the bow, and now there is water under it, and yesterday there was a 4-metre deviation in the bow and the stern."
"However, a mass of rock was later found at the bow of the ship, bringing the progress to a screeching halt."
(Excerpt) Read more at unilad.co.uk ...
No,they won’t be looted. But the canal will be unblocked.
A 20’ shipping container has ~11.5 cubic meters.
The Great Pyramid has been estimated to fill out at 2.5 million cubic meters. This ship carries ~ 20,000 containers so, it would be a smallish pyramid.
Someone is going to be buying an awful lot of fuel for the helicopter fleet. Think of the carbon foot print....
Tell them the containers contain American Sovereignty and dignity. It’ll be gone even faster.
OK - what you're saying is true. And the canal is wildly profitable... and it's an easy target in a war. How about a long term solution? A train track running the narrow areas with movable emergency offloading equipment...
I think we're about to find out what is in them thar containers...
EVERGREEN SHIP BLOCKING SUEZ: "THERE'S THINGS IN THOSE CONTAINERS THAT'S GONNA SHOCK THE WORLD"
You make it sound like an 8 hr job.
The part of the canal where the big tub got stuck hasn’t been upgraded. Long term solution is to make a second, concrete-lined channel, open that, close the old canal and dredge it, line it with concrete. If memory serves, the original canal bottom was lined with packed crushed rock.
It wouldn’t be a bad idea to dig a second route, either — on Egyptian territory, along the border with Israel (and Gaza, which is a territory not a country). That would make the border easier to police, would make tunnels a threat to the Egyptian economy, and provide a geographic barrier at the frontier. Jordan and Israel would both benefit, as would the Saudis, and all three should be participants in planning, construction, and receive a taste of the revenues.
As manufacturing continues to shift out of Europe into eastern and southern Asia, the volume of shipping is going to increase, probably more than double, in the next 30- or 40 years.
Read more modern archeological and linguistical findings, and less on literal Biblical writings.
That volume seems small for a 20-foot container. 6m x 2.5m x 2.5m would be 37.5 m^3.
Either way, 20,000 containers would be a fair-sized pile, though considerably smaller than the Great Pyramid.
Also, they are actually maintaining the canal well. The problem is the ship rammed the bank pretty good, penetrated well inside and hit/got stuck on a giant rock that was well inside and thus encapsulated by the earth of the bank.
The Ever Given (and the entire Evergreen shipping line) is Japanese, not Chinese. It’s also a standard size for that part of the world, called SuezMax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suezmax
It was set for Ramming Speed.
That's the Suez equivalent of too fast.
“Unloading...You need special people with special skills to remove that load....one box at a time.“
Yes. All 20,000 of them. No problem.
A smaller container ship won’t have cranes that can reach up that high. Many modern container ships don’t have container-handling cranes at all and cannot on/offload containers by themselves.
...can’t lift a loaded container. A loaded 40’ container can weigh up to 61,200 lbs. A Sikorsky Skycrane can only lift about 20K lbs and that only if it has almost no fuel.
A Russian Mi-26 (NATO reporting name: Halo) could lift one, barely, but they’re not common.
Yeah, except it was proceeding at normal speed when a sandstorm hit it, cutting off any visibility and possibly blowing it off course.
When I thought I heard them speaking Russian, I knew it was going to be a disaster video.
If they have to unload the containers, the Suez will be shut down for months. Trying to extract the ship from the bank was far faster.
The US has no helicopters that can lift a loaded 40’ shipping container. Even the Chinook-F can only lift about 25K, and that if you have next to no fuel. The Russians do have a couple that can.
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