Stuck ship shuts down Suez Canal traffic

An enormous container the length of the Empire State Building remains stuck in the Suez Canal. Shipping experts believe it could take days or even weeks to free the 224,000-ton vessel that is blocking one of the world's busiest waterways.
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    1. @John Brick . . . . Give or take a thousand or more/less miles, it is about 11,000 miles from where the ships are waiting, around the Cape of Good Hope and up to Gibraltar. At an average speed of 18 knots that would take about 25 days. Do the math bozo.

    2. @David Wang One: Be nice on the comment section here or get out of the sandbox. A lot of factors go into the cost more than the distance like ship speed which may not be 18 knots. Two: Watch this video for a seafarers actual computation based on the bulk carrier he is an engineer on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iwOZOb90fM

    3. @David Wang second great comment from you 😁👍 ( “simple physics” the other one) , it’s about 3 weeks , I doubt you’re sailor (I use to be) but you have paid attention at school 😂

  1. Nothing to see here, just a staged bunker fuel operation. Expect some “freak” weather, storms any day now…

  2. There aren’t enough shipping containers on board, surely they could load another thousand and that might fix it.

  3. The Evergreen Group (Chinese: 長榮集團) is the organizational designation used by a Taiwan-based conglomerate of shipping, transportation, and associated service companies.

  4. Melanin rich people in that drawing. How’d they turn so pale in less than a century? Rhetorical question.

    1. They havent……i lived in middle east….ive seen…….chill. Also the effect of slightly easier lives…with less time in the direct sun maybe, like a reverse tan

  5. To let everyone know how serious this is, the last time the Suez canal was closed there was a serious spike in oil prices

    1. In 1956, the USSR threatened to nuke Paris and London if the canal wasn’t given back to Egypt. This is a serious piece of real estate.

  6. Good thing that we already are in home office or locked down. Limiting the fuel availability shouldn’t be an issue.
    I haven’t refueled my car in months.

    1. US doesn’t get its oil from there, its self-sufficient and wouldn’t be impacted either way. Most countries don’t have that level of lockdown and life there is pretty much normal, specially in Asia, and oil prices already gone up significantly.

    2. @Alex Xander and the us isnt the only country in the world europe will have massive oil price rises and the middle east will loose buisness and the us is 86 percent self sufficent so it will have an impact on the prices in the us

  7. After this “accidental accident”, they might rethinking to make the whole canal from both sides more wider than it is today.
    Just in case,….you never know!!

    1. @Elizabeth Grogan
      George Carlin brought up an interesting question way back when.
      Whatever happened to the vertical hold problem on TVs?
      Boomers know what that was about.

  8. This is where I belong these comments bring me amusement. Thank You ALL. stay Safe and have a Wonderful day.

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