Suez Canal blockage

[Mark Wright]

Mark Wright said;

Ever Given is an Ultra Large Crude Carrier (ULCC)

Pedant hat on - Ever Given is a container ship (a very big one) and not a ULCC which would be a tanker.

Bigger ships (certainly wider ones such as aircraft carriers) can transit the canal, but every ship that does so has to meet certain dimensional constraints (not just beam and length) before being authorised to do so.  It will be very interesting to see what the inevitable inquiry will find with regards to the causes of this.

At the end of the day, 400,000t of ship has an awful lot of inertia and extremely difficult to unstick even if it grounded at modest speed.  Especially somewhere with next to no tidal range (c.30cm from memory).

You are correct. That?s cutting and pasting and not checking afterwards for you. It is indeed an Ultra Large Container Ship (ULCS).

Anyway it looks like it?s free now and being towed back to the Red Sea for inspection. I?m only assuming this as it looks like the Ever Given has turned off it?s radars and so is not showing up on Marine Traffic. A large tug boat going backwards gives it away though. We will have to wait for the incident report.

Mark 

 

[Mark Wright]

Just watching the BBC news that says ships will soon be allowed to continue through the canal on a first come first served basis.

When I went down it, ?first come first served? meant whoever handed over the biggest brown paper bag stuffed with money or cigarettes to the luxury powerboat went first.

 

[pwhole]

Isn't that the 'Law of the Sea'? I naturally assumed all of it worked like that

 

[ZombieCake]

Did they try this first?

 

[Fjell]

Isn't that the 'Law of the Sea'? I naturally assumed all of it worked like that

That is an interface between the sea and a parcel of God-damned lubbers and lickspittles.

Here?s some hard-working canal chaps who are chillaxing after some very extensive palm-greasing has left them exhausted for the day.

 

[Mrs Trellis]

The bow was in Asia and the stern in Africa. Wow!

 

[ZombieCake]

Seems to be a fashionable trend now.  Littlehampton in West Sussex has also been blocked.

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/19197545.cargo-ship-elise-gets-stuck-littlehampton-harbour-drifting-early-hours/