Can things get any worse than 300 ships in a 5 day traffic jam?
ArtAngel
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Better fill up your gas tanks. Just when you think things can't get worse. . . a giant container ship gets stuck in the Suez Canal. Over 300 ships transporting animals, food, perishable goods and badly needed supplies, are in in a five day traffic jam, that will continue through this weekend. Apparently it's costing almost $10 billion a day. The good news is it's a great chance to get some good images of what a giant cargo ship actually looks like.
One of the biggest ships in the world.
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Don't say things like that!!!
Particularly not during a global pandemic, with a silicon shortage and any number of other things. You'll trigger a meteor strike or something.
This traffic jam looks like a meteor shower.
Taking bids on my newly minted Ever Given NFT
What could be worst? How about 300 jammed ships? With everyone being impatient and in a rush to get through the canal, do you really think this can't happen again? Something like a highway collision pileup.
Been developing some web apps. Thought I'd take a break and play with some code to track the ship
It could get worse if something happened to the ship and all the containers ended up in the water...then who knows how long it would take to clean that up!
half the shelves around here already empty and online stores on back order. Prices sky high. This surely won;t help matters.
Can things get any worse than 300 ships in a 5 day traffic jam?
ww3???
...big space rock?
A global supply chain is only as strong as its weakest link. And that the Suez Canal is one really weak link is no new information. The same applies to the Panama Canal.
To come back to the original question: 301 ship in a 6-day jam.
And on the 7th day...
They've got it free now.
Considering the sad state of the world at the moment, the fact that some ships will be late for the cargo cult worshipers, shows a humorous lack of perspective.
Pineapple bits on your pizza?
Not exactly. It's still stuck.
Only the rear side, the bow is still stuck. Things will get really interesting should the thing break in half and sink, that would really change the economic landscape of the world.
Could still be worse, much worse.
It is moving.
https://www.facebook.com/MarineTraffic/photos/a.10151252682230339/10158769723115339
Hopefully this doesn't come off as a "first world recollection" but...
I've been through the Panama Canal on a cruise ship and it's hard to describe just how tight it is. I didn't have a balcony, but did have a large porthole. When the ship entered the lock, the cabin went completely dark because the window was less than a foot or so from the lock wall.
As the water filled the lock, and the ship rose, I was greeted by the foot of a lock worker who was standing on the edge. He was so close to the ship that I could count his toe hairs if I wanted.
All the way through the ship shuddered, groaned and screeched. Even moored, the ship still swayed enough to make glancing impact with the lock walls. Each one felt like being in a slow motion car crash.
You might ask... Why was I in my cabin during this event? Why not be out on deck to really appreciate it? I had started there and as I stood against the railing a bug decided to fly out of the jungle and say hello. It looked like a combination between a praying mantis, a grasshoper, and something from a Godzilla movie. And it certainly wasn't scared of me because it landed right on the railing next to me and promptly said Hello.
Anyway, I don't know what the point of this message is other than to say just how wickedly tight the canal is and how much it seemed like an exercise in controlled chaos.
Depends on how you define free I guess, but it was said to be floating 4½ hour before I posted that:
"The 400-metre (430-yard) long Ever Given was successfully re-floated at 4.30 am local time (0230 GMT) and was being secured, Inchcape, a global provider of marine services said on Twitter."
Apparently free. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/29/suez-canal-attempt-re-float-ever-given-delay-salvage-tugboats
The full moon has been associated with lunacy (I used to be sick but I'm okay now, twitch twitch), sleep patterns, moon induced baby booms, and now, monster-boat magic.
Edit: Here's how fast my handy dandy tracker says it's moving now at 5.58 pm. I've never been on for lamb at Easter, but apparently there are thousands of sheep on some of the ships and supposedly it will take a week or twobefore traffic returns to normal.