This is going to take a while. And it puts the other boats in the canal in a pickle as well, they can't exactly back out (easily, or even at all).
Suez canal blocked by a massive ship
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just call Capcom. “Super Container Ship II' Hyper Turbo Extra Special Champion Edition HD Remix”. Btw, there's a similar conundrum with large telescope projects: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26333391
Almost like a Samsung phone. Large container ship 20 Ultra Plus 5G Fan edition
Samsung at least uses 1 qualifier per device. S21 Plus, S21 Ultra.
Apple's 12 Pro Max, though...
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
For the Suez Canal a huge bomb is just going to make it bigger and easier to navigate in one spot. Blow up the locks for the Panama Canal and you have some seriously inconvenienced shipping companies. But even in both cases the result is that they have to take the long way around. It makes the shipping slower and more expensive, but it was a tiny fraction of your costs to begin with so most companies survive just fin…
For the Suez Canal a huge bomb is just going to make it bigger and easier to navigate in one spot. A huge bomb to one side of the canal would displace rock and mud in to the channel and make it shallower. That would be enough to close it to large ships until it could be dredged again. Although, if terrorists really wanted to wreak havoc in the canal they could scuttle a large ship while it's sailing in it. That would…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Fleet : some ships were stuck for eight years after the 1967 war closed the canal at both ends with sunk ships.
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Just call Capcom. “Super Container Ship II' Hyper Turbo Extra Special Champion Edition HD Remix”. Btw, there's a similar conundrum with large telescope projects: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26333391
You forgot “Pro”, which is what makes a variant the bigger one.
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#165If you go to vesselfinder you can follow the drama in real-time! Seems it's still stuck: https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9811000
“If” applies here nicely, website isn’t responding for me
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#167Does anyone have some insight on how this could affect global supply chains, depending on how long the canal is blocked? It seems like it's been blocked for a day or so, and there's already a pretty big queue. I'd imagine that has to have some significant impacts already.
Global trade will probably only be significantly impacted if the canal stays blocked for more than 2 weeks, which is when it starts to become a reasonable option (time-wise) to go south instead and round the cape. A backlog of ships on both sides will start to be really significant after 4 days of blocking, with longer blockade implying ports increasingly further down the routes being impacted as well. Currently, the…
Yep. Operationally, things like that are interesting. Global as a whole usually recovers pretty well. Might drive container and shipping rates a tad more so.
Truck and train will probably see an increase as well on the China-Europe route if it takes too long.
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#168Sorta makes me wonder why another ship, larger than a tugboat, couldn't hitch it with a tow rope (whatever the marine term) and give it a jerk. I get that ships aren't normally expected to do that, but you know, probably need larger tugboats for gigantic ships.
Amusingly enough, the tugs not uncommonly have more thrust. Large ships are _heavily_ optimized for the common case, which is sailing at about 13.5 knots. They take a very long time to get up to speed because their propulsion is sized to be just enough to overcome resistance at their typical cruising speed. Consequently, it would be difficult to get another ship up to any sort of speed in a short enough distance. Eve…
Related - These Mini-Ships Teach Pilots How to Navigate Major Waterways
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEDrFiQq1_k
Looks like fun actually!
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#170Three questions: 1. How easy would it be to pay a container ship’s captain to do that ? 2. Can you then bet on short term commodity futures to benefits from the event significantly? 3. Do you think this is what’s happening ?
Normally the ship’s captain isn’t in-charge in the canal. The Suez Port Authority has pilots you have to hire for that.
I've understood that (in Finland at least) the pilot's aren't actually steering the ship but giving instructions for the captain.