Suez Canal blocked as massive cargo ship turns sideways

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By Ken Martin | FOXBusines


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Shipping traffic has essentially been shut down in Egypt's Suez Canal.

A cargo container ship considered one of the largest in the world has turned sideways and blocked all traffic, according to officials.

The situation is threatening to disrupt a global shipping system already strained by the coronavirus pandemic.

The MV Ever Given is a Panama-flagged container ship that carries trade between Asia and Europe.

The ship became grounded Tuesday.

Evergreen Marine Corp., a major Taiwan-based shipping company that operates the ship, said in a statement provided to The Associated Press that the Ever Given had been overcome by strong winds as it entered the Suez Canal from the Red Sea.

The ship reportedly did not lose any of its containers.

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A Egyptian official, who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity as he wasn't authorized to brief journalists similarly blamed a strong wind in the area for the incident. Egyptian forecasters said high winds and a sandstorm plagued the area Tuesday, with winds gusting as much as 50 kph (31 mph).

The Ever Given's bow was touching the canal's eastern wall, while its stern looked lodged against its western wall, according to satellite data from MarineTraffic.com. Several tug boats surrounded the ship, likely attempting to push it the right way, the data showed.

Canal authorities could not be immediately reached by the AP early Wednesday.

The Ever Given had listed its destination as Rotterdam in the Netherlands prior to getting stuck in the canal.

Opened in 1869, the Suez Canal provides a crucial link for oil, natural gas and cargo being shipping from East to West. Around 10% of the world’s trade flows through the waterway and it remains one of Egypt’s top foreign currency earners.

The Associated Press contributed to this article.

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How does that happen :lol:

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cock and ball with a butt :rofl:

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How does that happen :lol:

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Imagine the effect on world economies if the canal was blocked fore an extended period?

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By Ken Martin | FOXBusiness


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A cargo traffic jam in Egypt's Suez Canal continued into Thursday.

Global shipping was further periled as at least 150 other vessels needing to pass through the crucial waterway idled waiting for the obstruction to clear, authorities said.

The Ever Given, a Panama-flagged ship that carries cargo between Asia and Europe, ran aground Tuesday in the narrow, man-made canal dividing continental Africa from the Sinai Peninsula.

Efforts to free the ship using dredgers, digging and the aid of high tides have yet to push the container vessel aside.

So far, dredgers have tried to clear silt around the massive ship.

Tug boats are being used to shake it loose.

Canal service provider Leth Agencies said at least 150 ships were waiting for the Ever Given to be cleared, including vessels near Port Said on the Mediterranean Sea, Port Suez on the Red Sea and those already stuck in the canal system on Egypt's Great Bitter Lake.

Evergreen Marine Corp., a major Taiwan-based shipping company that operates the ship, said in a statement that the Ever Given had been overcome by strong winds as it entered the canal from the Red Sea but none of its containers had sunk.

The closure could affect oil and gas shipments to Europe from the Mideast, which rely on the canal to avoid sailing around Africa. The price of international benchmark Brent crude stood at over $63 a barrel Thursday.

The Associated Press contributed to this article.

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gfycat can fuck off, watch this and it damned near looks deliberate, as soon as they get done drawing knob & bollocks, they draw an ass and head right in :lol: https://i.4cdn.org/pol/1616663707309.webm


https://www.suezcanal.gov.eg/English/MediaCenter/News/Pages/Navigation_new25-03-2021.aspx

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The (((new))) York times says it was a strong breeze that did it ...im serious. (((They))) really wrote that.


Bro, I work peripherally to off shore oil drilling and shipping, and yesterday a coworker and I where shootin the shit with a pilot. My coworker asked what he thinks of the Evergreen, and the entire room went into a 30 minute rant about how it’s either complete incompetence or staged.

Some key takeaways:

>basically can’t run aground
Modern ships are built to avoid this exact scenario. Like even if you did hit land, the ship is made so that it doesn’t get stuck.

>the sand storm excuse is bullshit
Only a complete retard would let 40 knot winds have any effect on the position of the ship. Supposedly the boat tells you exactly how to compensate for wind, and from what I gather it can do it automatically (they threw a lot of industry jargon at us).

>visibility is a moot point
This isn’t the 18th century with a guy in a crows nest shouting out directions. You don’t even need windows.

>no mention of specialty equipment for removal
There are ships designed for widening and building shipping channels that are also used for dislodging vessels. You don’t use a tiny excavator.

Maersk Denver is getting tugged out going backwards

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it appears that the asia ruby III hit the maersk denver

on the weird side of things, remember when Ghislane Maxwell's secret husband was revealed, and he's this shipping tech CEO where they are fancying themselves as the NSA of global trade...
News outlets across the world are reporting Jeffrey Epstein’s child procuring madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, is married to a man named Scott Borgerson.

“Scott Borgerson, the CEO of a tech company called CargoMetrics, has been tied since last year to Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell, who authorities arrested in early July,” Business Insider reported.

“Scott Borgerson, the CEO of a maritime analytics company, is back in the news for his ties to Jeffrey Epstein’s inner circle,” Business Insider reported.

On March 14, 2020 CargoMetrics published the following:

A Peek Inside CargoMetrics’ Bid To Build The ‘NSA of Global Trade’

Greg Miller, senior editor | 14 March 2018

An aura of mystery has long surrounded CargoMetrics Technologies, a Boston-based quantitative hedge fund that uses ship-movement data to place market bets and has secured financial backing from private-equity giant Blackstone, famed investor Paul Tudor Jones, Google founder Eric Schmidt, Israeli shipping magnate Idan Ofer, and most recently, Maersk Tankers.

CargoMetrics is monetising its vast dataset via three business strategies: a hedge fund, a commercial management optimisation business, and eventually, a sale of access to the database to subscribing customers.

“What I’m trying to build is the ‘NSA of global trade’,” he said, referring to America’s information intelligence agency, the National Security Agency. “We have a real-time digital map of the global economy. But more importantly, we have a data archive. More than the patent and the first-mover advantage and the dozens of rocket scientists [on staff], this is the biggest barrier to entry [for a competitor]. We save all the data we receive. We have hundreds of billions of historical records in a searchable database. Think of it as a Google search for trade – except it’s secret.”



I'm still trying to find out what the cargo of Ever Given was supposed to be...containers and shit, someone said class A which can include hazardous stuff. but its not like ore or shit like that.

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>Is the canal cross section a trapezoid
Yes it is
>Does this mean..
Yes it does
The ships bow is embedded ~10 metres underground


She was going around 13kph when she hit the side, but was reported to be going near full speed (around 30kph) when she cut off one of Maersk ships to enter the canal.

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:-k

https://twitter.com/US5thFleet/status/1374891736527482880

a big chunk of russia's fleet at the north end,

and the US 5th fleet at the south end

H3RC coded Evergreen goes streaking past maersk denver to get into the canal ahead of it and then stops it from going further, wherein the denver is then hit by a taiwanese ship.

wild stuff

if I were :fbd: I'd wonder what the maersk denver has aboard

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By Ken Martin | FOXBusiness


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The price of oil is trading higher as Egypt's Suez Canal remains blocked by a cargo ship,elevating trade concerns.

A giant container ship remained stuck sideways Friday as authorities race to free the vessel and reopen traffic in a crucial East-West waterway for global shipping.

The Ever Given, a Panama-flagged ship that carries cargo between Asia and Europe, ran aground Tuesday.

The blockage has caused headaches for global trade. Around 10% of world trade flows through the canal, which is particularly crucial for the transport of oil. The closure also could affect oil and gas shipments to Europe from the Mideast.

Oil prices were trading more than 2% higher on Friday.

U.S. benchmark crude oil gained $1.24 to $59.75 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It sank $2.62 on Thursday to $58.56 per barrel.

Brent crude, the standard for international pricing, picked up $1.10 to $63.05 per barrel.

The ship, owned by Japanese firm Shoei Kisen KK, has blocked traffic in the canal, leaving dozens of smaller ships stranded in the Mediterranean and Red Seas.

The vessel’s bow was touching the eastern wall, while its stern appeared lodged against the western wall — an extraordinary event that experts said they had never heard of happening before in the canal’s 150-year history.

As of Friday morning, the vessel remained grounded in the same position, with tugboats and dredgers still working to free it, according to Canal service provider Leth Agencies.

It remains unclear when the route would reopen.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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blue = less than 5m deep (then think about the 15.7m draught for this ship....draught = basically how much of the ship is under water)

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and from the looks of it, this is more evidence that this was done on purpose, because it was a section where the nose could more easily gain access - it wouldnt have grounded as badly if it waited a bit longer
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they're still not saying what the problem was

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dredge ship doing work
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Was traveling at 13 knots, lost control, bow ran hard aground to starboard.
Momentum carried stern hard aground to port.
If you all can picture the effects of an automobile hitting a wall at 15 miles per hour, imagine the force behind a gorillion ton behemoth doing the same.
I will say this with emphasis (again), if this ship is not refloated within the next few days (probability close to zero), then a multi month long off loading operation will commence.
However, if that vessel has taken on water due to the stress cracks developing along the hull/keel (probability about 100%), then you have a sunken ship.
Removal could take between 5 to 12 months depending upon whether cracks can be temporarily sealed, massive pumping undertaken, and a short tow to move vessel out of the channel.
My expectations sgrongly favor a year long ship salvage operation.
(FWIW, I worked with SMIT long ago and have extensive experience in marine salvage).

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wind :lol:

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FOX Business Staff Report


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A canal services firm says that salvage teams have "partially refloated" the colossal container ship that remains wedged across the Suez Canal, without providing further details about when the vessel would be set free.

The BBC, citing the Suez Canal Authority, reported that the ship has been corrected by 80% and freed from the shoreline. The report said that there are new hopes that the massive ship-- that is about as long as the Empire State Building is tall-- could be freed completely and shipping traffic resume.

Leth Agencies said early Monday that the breakthrough came after intensive efforts to push and pull the ship with 10 tugboats and vacuum up sand with several dredgers at spring tide. The firm said it was awaiting confirmation of the refloating from the Suez Canal Authority.

Lt. Gen. Osama Rabei, the head of the Suez Canal Authority, said workers continued "pulling maneuvers" to refloat the vessel early Monday.

Satellite data from MarineTraffic.com showed the ship in the same position, surrounded by a squadron of tugboats with its bow stuck in the canal's eastern bank.

The skyscraper-sized Ever Given became stuck in the Suez Canal last Tuesday and has held up $9 billion in global trade each day, bringing disruption to the vital waterway.

Already, hundreds vessels remained trapped in the canal waiting to pass, carrying everything from crude oil to cattle. Over two dozen vessels have opted for the alternative route between Asia and Europe around the Cape of Good Hope, adding some two weeks to journeys and threatening delivery delays.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

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https://twitter.com/AgenciesLeth/status/1376515756305874948

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stuck not stuck, stuck, not stuck lol

https://sputniknews.com/world/202103291082480363-ever-given-reportedly-blocks-suez-canal-again-hours-after-being-unstuck/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMyErD7Vf74

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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/suez-canal-deal-reached-ever-given-be-freed-wednesday

Suez Canal Deal Reached, Ever Given To Be Freed Wednesday

The owners and insurers of the massive container ship, Ever Given, which blocked the Suez Canal in late March and closed the world's most important shipping lane for almost a week, settled Sunday with Egyptian authorities, allowing the vessel to exit the canal later this week, according to AP News.

The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) will allow Ever Given and its crew to set sail on Wednesday after settling compensation disputes. Since late March, owners and insurers of the vessel and SCA officials have been bickering over settlement figures for canal disruptions.

Last month, an "agreement in principle" between the vessel's owners and SCA was announced, but it now appears finalized.





There were no details about settlement figures. The signing of the settlement contract would be held on Wednesday at a ceremony as the vessel departs from Great Bitter Lake, a large saltwater lake in Egypt that is part of the Suez Canal.