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Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

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Post by berkes » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 7:47 AM UTC

GekkePrutser wrote: post #100

aasasd wrote: post #91

Earlier 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

The phone gets so hot, it needs a fan?

Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

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Post by orthoxerox » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 7:47 AM UTC

instakill wrote: post #133

Assuming the canal remains blocked for 10 - 14 days, what WSB moves would you make in the stock market given this scenario?

Any public companies with large Mi-26 fleets?

Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

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Post by harry8 » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 7:49 AM UTC

capableweb wrote: post #23

If you go to vesselfinder you can follow the drama in real-time! Seems it's still stuck: https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9811000

Had more luck with this one, hug of death?

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:5630138/zoo...

Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

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Post by jansan » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 7:51 AM UTC

walrus01 wrote: post #59

a video from 4 months ago, what it normally looks like to transit the canal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwdU2cYRbnM

At the end of the video he says that he estimates the transit toll for his ship to be around 200,000$. Wow!

Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

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Post by system2 » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 7:54 AM UTC

spiritplumber wrote: post #126

They’ll have to slowly rock her back and forth in the roll axis while they pull to get her aligned with the canal again. Use earthmovers.

Let's hope someone from the canal operations read your comment.

Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

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Post by berkes » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 8:02 AM UTC

nerdponx wrote: post #53

_ah wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...which is interesting. Two unrelated ships lost power at the same location on the same day? Curious.

You think someone was bribed to choke up the canal or something? What incentive would you have to do something like that? Is this part of a spy movie?

I'd imagine a long blockage has an effect on oil prices, as most oil coming from the Gulf States to Europe (and America's west coasts?) would normally travel through there.

It essentially plugs a giant oil 'pipeline'

Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

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Post by _Microft » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 8:07 AM UTC

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.

Astronomers to the rescue!

https://xkcd.com/1294/

Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

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Post by person_of_color » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 8:10 AM UTC

This system seems messed up and is ready for disruption. Lets replace gigantic container ships with a worldwide flock of drones following the sun 24/7.

Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

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Post by ygra » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 8:10 AM UTC

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.

That's been the case for display resolutions for a while as well ... although most of them can probably be parsed by the regex [UWXVQ]+GA.

Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

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Post by _Microft » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 8:21 AM UTC

Here is another accident of the "Ever Given" in Hamburg [0] in which a harbour ferry suffered a total loss after being rammed by her. Supposed cause was an unfortunate combination of slow speeds and severe wind which seems to be a difficult situation for ships as tall as these.

Maybe a similar combination of events happened here?

[0] https://www.mopo.de/hamburg/frachter-rammt-faehre-knapp-an-d...