Tugs Work to Refloat Ultra-Large Containership Blocking Suez Canal

[kestrel9]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CMxEKHanW62 ... e=ig_embed

https://gcaptain.com/tug-boats-suez-canal-ever-given/
CAIRO, March 24 (Reuters) – The shortest shipping route from Europe to Asia remained blocked on Wednesday as eight tug boats struggled to free one of the world’s largest container ships after it ran aground in the Suez Canal.
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Owner and Insurers of Ever Given Face Millions in Claims https://gcaptain.com/owner-and-insurers ... in-claims/


video discussion regarding Ever Given accident https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yWJ1Vs2aW4&t=185s

[doginventer]

SUEZ CANAL BLOCKED: A "WORST CASE SCENARIO FOR GLOBAL TRADE" #HUNGERGAMES https://brandnewtube.com/watch/suez-can ... 2ntPc.html

[Deleted User 2149]

Something about this feels fishy

[HennyPenny]

Very, very fishy name "Evergreen".

Who else had that name on an aviation firm based out of McMinnville,Or and allied to the Pinal air park at Marana, AZ? Evergreen Aviation, rumored to be a CIA front. Why would a Taiwanese name their company "Evergreen"? They also own Evergreen Air Cargo Services Corp.

https://www.evergreen-group.com/puf1/js ... oup_en.jsp

"Marshall was peering into the pre-9/11 activities surrounding Pinal Air Park and its major CIA proprietary operator at the time, Evergreen Aviation."
https://newspunch.com/new-911-evidence- ... nger-jets/

Marana was the principal continental United States maintenance base for Southeast Asia CIA operations including Air America and Continental Air Services. The Marana facility was subsequently acquired by Evergreen International Airlines which performed aircraft modification and maintenance at the airfield.
During WW2 Chinese pilots were also trained there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinal_Airpark

Marshall, who wrote the Big Bamboozle, was found 2013 along with his son and daughter and family dog dead, all with bullets to the heads. Local police called it murder-suicide same day they found the bodies, didn't release any info on forensic gunpowder residue on Marshall's hands.

Marshall believed that the CIA constructed a large drone with auto pilot and directed it at the WTBldg. He believed that it was constructed at Pinal Air Park. He flew with Barry Seal as part of the Iran Contra program.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... mself.html
https://21stcenturywire.com/2013/02/28/ ... -evidence/

[HennyPenny]

Re: SUEZ CANAL BLOCKED: A "WORST CASE SCENARIO FOR GLOBAL TRADE" #HUNGERGAMES https://brandnewtube.com/v/pB9
@doginventer

per the video:
containers are piling up in China reducing world food shipments because the Chinese are inspecting the fish for covid???
Container vans that used to pile up here are being actively bought up at a high price by the Chinese and being sent back to China???

"massive constraint in supply" due to port bottlenecks, shipping containers in short supply, texas freeze, reduced labor due to covid, etc leading to reduced raw materials leading to steep price increases and reduced plastic output culminating in companies unable to supply for example milk or farm irrigation parts or cars. Author calls it economic warfare.

The charted course of the Evergreen ship just before blocking the Suez was a giant phallus ??? a big FU to the rest of us waiting for supplies?

[doginventer]

SHENANIGANS!!!

[kestrel9]

UPDATE: Suez Canal blockage is delaying an estimated $400 million an hour in goods
https://archive.is/usOhA#selection-1851.0-1863.266



"The stranded mega-container vessel, Ever Given in the Suez Canal, is holding up an estimated $400 million an hour in trade, based on the approximate value of goods that are moved through the Suez every day, according to shipping data and news company Lloyd’s List.
Lloyd’s values the canal’s westbound traffic at roughly $5.1 billion a day, and eastbound traffic at around $4.5 billion a day.

The Suez has provided some relief for global importers as they increasingly relied on it last year to avoid massive congestion at West Coast ports in the U.S. that added days, if not weeks, to some deliveries coming from Asia.
Baer, who has containers on vessels stuck in both lanes of the Suez Canal, said if it stays closed, vessels will be diverted and go around the horn of Africa, which adds an additional seven to nine days to a trip.
According to BIMCO, the largest of the international shipping associations representing shipowners, the bottleneck will only continue to grow and impact supplies.
“Everyone is making contingency plans as we speak,” said Peter Sand, chief shipping analyst at BIMCO."

“Carriers run a third of their Asia trade strings to the U.S. East Coast via the Suez and two-thirds via Panama Canal,” said Baer. “Disruption is also hitting the import trade from India as well as the Middle East.”

Clearing the backlog
According to the World Shipping Council, the Suez canal’s daily vessel throughput capacity is 106. If the canal is closed for two days, it will then take two additional days after re-opening to clear the backlog. The longer the delay, the longer it will take to move out the vessels.
Lars Jensen, CEO of Sea Intelligence Consulting, tells CNBC the schedule reliability for container vessels is already in disarray as a result of the pandemic.

“Right now two out of three container vessels arrive late,” he explained. “And when they are late, they are on average five days late,” he said, adding that a two-day delay isn’t a major problem. “However, the longer this drags out, the worse it gets because you are then talking about effectively removing vessel capacity as well as containers at a point in time where they are already in short supply.”

In addition to delaying thousands of containers loaded with consumer items, the stranded ship has also tied up empty containers, which are key for Chinese exports.
“Containers are already scarce in China and the backup in the Suez will further stress the inventory,” explained Jon Monroe, maritime trade and logistics consultant with Jon Monroe Consulting. “We are back to a pre-Chinese New Year environment where factories are running at full steam and are struggling to find containers as well as space for their finished goods.”

This delay will impact the arrival of U.S. imports that fill store shelves as well as U.S. manufacturing components.

“Before the Suez Canal disruption, we were expecting the container situation to get worse in April because we were already seeing the scarcity of containers,” said Monroe. “This canal closure will not help. You will start to see product piling up on factory floors.”

[HennyPenny]

Hope there's no ammonium nitrate in the cargo hold.

[hollywood2020]

Yea, how do they keep all those kids alive down in the hold?

[kestrel9]

EDIT: see this new report https://archive.is/M7NiN
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/tr ... r-BB1f0SVw end Edit.
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Some of the latest regarding the Ever Given blocking the Suez Canal.

CNBC notes:

The Ever Given remains lodged in the Suez Canal, halting traffic for a fourth straight day.
The massive container ship stretches more than 1,300 feet, which is almost as long as the Empire State Building is tall.
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Guardian reports https://archive.is/ooZEm

Xiden offering help.

"Joe Biden has said the US is looking at what it can do to help free the 400-metre container ship Ever Given from its position blocking the Suez canal as the trade route crisis stretched into a fifth day.

“We have equipment and capacity that most countries don’t have. And we are seeing what help we can be,” the US president said on Friday in Delaware. His comments came after a US official said the navy was prepared to send a team of dredging experts to the canal, but was awaiting approval from local authorities.

Meanwhile, as the latest effort to dislodge the ship with tug boats was suspended late on Friday, shipping companies began to reroute cargoes elsewhere to avoid worsening the huge logjam that has built up at either end of the crucial trade artery.
Maersk said 22 of its vessels had been affected so far and that it had so far rerouted two of its vessels around the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa."...

"The Japanese owner of the ship, Shoei Kisen Kaisha, said it aimed to free the vessel by Saturday afternoon UK time, but could not guarantee the effort would be complete by then.

Shipping rates for oil product tankers have nearly doubled since the ship became stranded, and efforts to free the giant vessel may take weeks and be complicated by unstable weather, threatening costly delays for companies already dealing with Covid-19 restrictions.
A Dutch rescue team had confirmed two additional tugs would arrive on Sunday to help dislodge the ship, the Ever Given’s technical manager, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM), said.

Earlier, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said efforts to free the ship by tug resumed following the completion of dredging operations at its bow to remove 20,000 cubic metres of sand.

“The tugging operations require the availability of a number of supporting factors including wind direction and tides, which makes it a complex technical process,” the authority said.
The SCA welcomed a US offer to help. Turkey also said it could send a vessel to the canal, amid a push by Ankara to repair ties with Egypt after years of animosity." ...


(NOTE: All stranded vessels are welcome to listen to this all horn video and consider upgrading.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kdbH40abnY )

..."The blockage could cost global trade $6bn-$10bn a week, a study by German insurer Allianz showed on Friday.
Ratings agency Moody’s expects Europe’s manufacturing and car parts suppliers to be most affected because they operate “just-in-time” supply chains, and said port congestion and further delays to the supply chain were “inevitable”.

Retired British Royal Navy commander Tom Sharpe said the best bet for the next attempt would be a high tide on Sunday, but because the ship was aground both front and rear there was a risk the hull could rupture if rescuers pulled too hard.

Mohab Mamish, the Egyptian presidential adviser on Suez canal projects and sea ports, told MBC Misr TV a floating crane should be used to transfer some of the Ever Given’s containers to another ship to lighten the vessel and enable it to float."

(see article for more about oil prices and oil tankers stats...)