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Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

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Post by indeedmug »

testfoobar wrote: post #128
jandrese wrote: post #27

According to the Twitter feed there is now a excavator trying to dig out the bow. It really shows off the scale as the excavator looks like a tiny toy next to the massive container ship. https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1374468169784459267/pho...

Picture from another angle. Not sure if it is authentic or photoshopped: https://twitter.com/lookner/status/1374580367269711875

If you scroll down there is another picture from a distance that shows the digger. The shop is just massive. Explains why it's still stuck right now.

Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

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Post by lawl »

testfoobar wrote: post #128
jandrese wrote: post #27

According to the Twitter feed there is now a excavator trying to dig out the bow. It really shows off the scale as the excavator looks like a tiny toy next to the massive container ship. https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1374468169784459267/pho...

Picture from another angle. Not sure if it is authentic or photoshopped: https://twitter.com/lookner/status/1374580367269711875

https://www.fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=981f442a7e8e35...

I'm no expert in detecting shoops. But ELA looks fine to me, I don't think it's photoshopped.

Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

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Post by sevengraff »

jcpst wrote: post #119
oliv__ wrote: post #101

Tengential but I am always curious what software these huge logistics company use to manage their business. From my outsider's perspective, it seems like a best-in-class-software enabled company would have a massive advantage over the rest. Interested to hear if anyone has insights about this

I’m a software engineer at one of these global logistics companies. The market is extremely competitive. We are one of the biggest in the business, and we only capture small percent (I heard 3% before) of market share. We build event driven systems primarily glued together with Kafka. There are thousands of deployed products.

I'm interested to read about this if you've got links to related blogs or such.

Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

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Post by masklinn »

GhostVII wrote: post #89
danaos wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uhhh it's in Wikipedia's "largest container ships" list! [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_container_ship...

In 2016, Prokopowicz and Berg-Andreassen defined a container ship with a capacity of 10,000 to 20,000 TEU as a Very Large Container Ship (VLCS), while that with a capacity greater than 20,000 TEU as an Ultra Large Container Ship (ULCS) They are gonna run out of larger adjectives pretty soon.

Screen resolutions have not and they are way worse.

Ship sizes can just reuse that replacing “graphics array” with “container ship” e.g. Quad Size Extended Container Ship.

Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

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Post by kerpele »

testfoobar wrote: post #127

Compare the red/black line on the ship's hull and the water line. Under normal conditions, the red/black line is parallel to the water across the length of the ship: https://www.google.com/search?q=evergreen+ever+given&source=... In this picture of the ship stuck in the Suez, the red/black line appears to tilt noticeably upwards towards the bow: https://twitter.com/marceldirsus/status/1374480496789393412 If this isn'…

I’m not a ship engineer but I do know that ships are not built to be suspended from the ends. I guess in the worst case the hull breaks which would mean the canal to be blocked for quite a while.

Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

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Post by vxNsr »

matthewaveryusa wrote: post #80

Ha, I happened to see it leave Boston August of last year and snapped a photo of it because it was jaw dropping big (and I’m not a boat person!) the Evergreen had 4 tugboats guiding it. Yeah that thing isn’t moving without professional help. https://photos.app.goo.gl/6Ywgot5wmK6HDNoV6 Edit: so this is the “ever living” that’s 335 meters long. The ever given is 400 meters long

Yeah, don't take this the wrong way but your pic doesn't do it justice at all, looks pretty normal sized from your picture.

Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

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Post by kenneth »

TimWolla wrote: post #82
matthewaveryusa wrote: post #80

Ha, I happened to see it leave Boston August of last year and snapped a photo of it because it was jaw dropping big (and I’m not a boat person!) the Evergreen had 4 tugboats guiding it. Yeah that thing isn’t moving without professional help. https://photos.app.goo.gl/6Ywgot5wmK6HDNoV6 Edit: so this is the “ever living” that’s 335 meters long. The ever given is 400 meters long

That's another ship. The tweet is about "Ever Given", not "Evergreen". Edit: Comparing with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_container_ship... it might or might not have been the ship. Evergreen is the name of the company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_Marine

Evergreen is one of the shipping companies from Taiwan. Incidentally, one of my favorite airlines EVA Air is their spinoff airline, based in Taipei (and far better than the flag carrier China Airlines)

Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

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Post by alisonatwork »

dopeboy wrote: post #129
alisonatwork wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of the ships have unused cabins, and some shipping companies allow civilians to book them as a sort of quirky cruise experience. There is quite a lot of paperwork involved, and you need to book fairly far in advance, but it's totally doable if you have the cash and the time. When I went it cost around us$100 per night. Going from Europe to Asia takes 3-4 weeks, I think going around the world (both Suez and Panam…

I had no clue - this is fascinating. Do you mind sharing who you booked with?

The company I travelled with was actually Evergreen, so I was on one of these "Ever Foo" ships people are talking about upthread. The photos on Twitter look very similar to ones I took at the time.

I booked through a specialized travel agent in the EU that has since gone bust, but if you search the web for freighter cruise or cargo ship cruise you should be able to find some other companies that can help out.

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