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In the middle parts of the ship it is probably not grounded, so you might have ropes below the hull with large inflatable balloons on both sides below water level, to give the ship extra lift. Then on a high tide, with oil & water removed, maybe some dredging on the sides where it needs to rotate to, and.. go!
Someone get the old man and that little boy scout from Up on the phone, stat!
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If this was space engineers I would build a crane drone and offload it unto nearby ships. Or build giant trucks to help the ship get unstuck. Or just tow it outside the environment...
Where is Elon when you need him?
The canal, for how important it is, sure hasn't seen much in the way of investment, it seems. They could have two lanes of concrete-lined canal I'm sure, but it's just a ditch with a tiny excavator.
$9bn in 2014
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For moving containers off the best bet would probably be heavy lift choppers, the ship is large enough you could have several working on it at once and then just drop them off nearby to be loaded onto barges or something. A huge undertaking but it any weight taken off the Evergreen is less digging they have to do and the time is so expensive. Also it's less middle of nowhere there's a pretty large airbase nearby it l…
Like the OP said, folks really aren't understanding the scale of this problem.. If they manage to do a single crate per minute, that's still just under seven days to do them all. An empty forty foot shipping container on its own weighs about four tons and their max supported weight is 33.5 tons, so the problem is somewhere in between for every single container . A Mi-26 helicopter, a "heavy transport helicopter" can…
If this blockade lasts for 12 days it has reached 1 billion loss >= 1/100 of the egypt household. That household is already under stress from the "escape from cairo"-plans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Administrative_Capital) and covid.
Yes, it is expensive. But not as expensive as having a canal blocked is for the world economy and the Egyptian government.
Who designed this critical piece of infrastructure with a single point of failure?
~15% of the World's trade is dependent on it and this is taking much longer than expected. Why?
My question, for those who know more about this domain than me, is this a problem that enough money could fix? If the governments of the world wrote a $1 trillion blank check, would that be enough to get the ship out in the next 24 hours? Or is this a problem that money alone can't solve?
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9. The destination is the Netherlands (Rotterdam). While we're at it, the 1956 Suez canal crisis marked the end of the traditional colonial powers when the USSR threatened to nuke London and Paris if they don't let Egypt regain control of the canal. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/yes-1956-suez-crisi...
Small correction. Egypt do not regain the canal, they seized the canal. Not egypt, but the Suez Canal company was was not the legitimate owner of the canal. Interestingly, it was the disapproval of the US under Eisenhower that stopped the military action of Britain and France that ended their intervention. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal_Company