Mark Wright
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Ed W said: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