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Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

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Post by djohnston »

lovelyviking wrote: post #301
fifilura wrote: post #281

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I love the position of the Swedish flag in that photo. Given that the accident happened in Germany and the ship is Taiwanese. It is just freaky, I don't know if it is good or bad to be associated with such an incident. In a plane crash they are usually quick to paint over the name of the airline company to not be associated. I don't think this is the same though.

Can't see the flag, because the whole page is blocked by some BS (presumably in german). Blocking own content or creating obstacles to see it ... what can be more ridiculous. I just close such web pages and never come back.

Good old GDPR improving our web experience!

Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

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Post by jhugo »

konjin wrote: post #207
oliv__ wrote: post #99

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Wow. The magnitude of global trade is insane!

It's a lot quieter than it used to be. Even worse for planes on flight radar 24.

Maritime traffic dropped significantly during mid-2020 but has largely recovered. For example, Singapore's stats for Feb 2021 are basically flat year-on-year for container throughput.

Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

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Post by stevespang »

If the authorities had any sense they would already have 4 massive draglines excavator on site. One on each starboard and port side, bow and stern both, able to throw their buckets up to maybe a 75 to 100 feet out and drag the sediment onto land. Nothing can do this job like a giant dragline excavator bucket. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Muskie

Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

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Post by jhugo »

fomine3 wrote: post #419
arnaudsm wrote: post #212

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Super-ships emit ~5g_Co2/Ton/km on average[1], while railway is 2-35g, air transport is 700-3000g and truck transport is 100-2000g. Surprisingly, the bigger the boat the more effective. We tend to have a bias against larger machines, but often they can be the cleanest in proportion. [1] https://www.ademe.fr/sites/default/files/assets/documents/86...

Why truck transport x20 vary?

Possibly road conditions and distance. A truck moving goods around a city will be much less efficient (stop-start traffic) than a truck moving goods over a long distance between cities (likely mostly highway).

Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

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Post by nonethewiser »

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #362
fumblebee wrote: post #352

This incident has already been added to opening section for the Suez Canal Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal I wonder what makes something significant enough to be added to this section. A quick scan of the page shows some interesting tidbits that aren't present in the opening (to me, more noteworthy - so far - than the ongoing blockage): > The canal had an immediate and dramatic effect on worl…

This is a big ship. There's no nearby facility to unload or service it. Its not something you bring tools in your pickup truck to solve the problem. If its not immediately resolvable with the ships own facilities, then its not clear it can be solved in less than a-long-time. Maybe years? Its 200 million pounds. It holds 20,000 units. To unload it would take building a facility on-site. And maybe a rail line to carry…

I don't think unloading it is an option. I wonder if they will get ships to push it.

Sounds like they are digging too.

Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

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Post by oliv__ »

jcpst wrote: post #335
sevengraff wrote: post #135

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

On the logistics business side, I’ll admit that my knowledge is from the day-to-day and don’t read a lot outside of work. Our company does have plenty of marketing material of course: https://www.chrobinson.com/en-us/about-us/technology/robinso... I could ask some of the data science folks I know in the org if they have blogs, I’d be curious about that as well. We have a blog that slowed down during covid (we’ve been…

Thanks for sharing these links, it's a good peek inside the company! Idk if reality lives up to the marketing but those videos made it look like an interesting place to work at

Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

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Post by pyinstallwoes »

minitoar wrote: post #375
JoeAltmaier wrote: post #362

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This is a big ship. There's no nearby facility to unload or service it. Its not something you bring tools in your pickup truck to solve the problem. If its not immediately resolvable with the ships own facilities, then its not clear it can be solved in less than a-long-time. Maybe years? Its 200 million pounds. It holds 20,000 units. To unload it would take building a facility on-site. And maybe a rail line to carry…

I will eat my hat if this takes a year to resolve, or costs 1 billion dollars (excluding lost revenue due to closure, I have no idea what that is).

It's already costing 18 million dollars a minute

Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

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Post by minitoar »

pyinstallwoes wrote: post #428
minitoar wrote: post #375

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I will eat my hat if this takes a year to resolve, or costs 1 billion dollars (excluding lost revenue due to closure, I have no idea what that is).

It's already costing 18 million dollars a minute

Sure, in lost revenue, which I specifically excluded.
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