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Jim Gazebo · 24-03-2021 01:42PM

https://twitter.com/SStapczynski/status/1374675583142039556?s=19

Looks like it is finally free. Thankfully for all involved.

Jim Gazebo · 24-03-2021 01:49PM

Or maybe not!

https://twitter.com/SStapczynski/status/1374703539889401856?s=19

Atlantic Dawn · 24-03-2021 02:38PM

https://twitter.com/EchoFarage/status/1374715031192018944?s=19

Dillonb3 · 24-03-2021 11:04PM

Supposedly that ship has history it was involved in a near collision with a ferry near hamburg in 2019

josip · 25-03-2021 12:08AM

What do the BBC mean when they say ?

Egypt has reopened the canal's older channel to divert some traffic until the grounded ship can move again.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56505413

Where the ship is stuck is only single channel?

Jim Gazebo · 25-03-2021 01:27AM

josip wrote: »

What do the BBC mean when they say ?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56505413

Where the ship is stuck is only single channel?

Not sure what they are getting at there. They are currently backing vessels behind the Ever Given astern down to Suez so it's going to be a long closure. Insane!

Vic_08 · 25-03-2021 01:40AM

josip wrote: »

What do the BBC mean when they say ?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56505413

Where the ship is stuck is only single channel?

That quote has been doing the rounds but is wrong, the ship is stuck in a single channel section.

Jim Gazebo · 25-03-2021 03:22AM

https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1374905729329606656?s=19

As a vessel operator do you now go around Africa or wait. What if your cargo spoils over the blockage, who is going to take liability? I'm going to say under normal conditions the shipowner of each individual ship should be covered but this is a bit different I guess. Some very interesting reports will come out of this.

josip · 25-03-2021 10:18AM

From my rural background, my instinct could be to pull it out from the same direction it went in.
But all 3 tugs are on the wrong side for that.
Is that because the tugs are based north of where it grounded and can't get around or would there be other thinking behind what they are trying?

ohnonotgmail · 25-03-2021 10:24AM

josip wrote: »

From my rural background, my instinct could be to pull it out from the same direction it went in.
But all 3 tugs are on the wrong side for that.
Is that because the tugs are based north of where it grounded and can't get around or would there be other thinking behind what they are trying?

to me the tugs look placed to push the stern to port. If the around the bow has been sufficiently cleared then the ship should be free to move in that direction. that should leave it parallel with the canal again.

AndyBoBandy · 25-03-2021 10:39AM

I'd get 2 really big ships, one on either side, with a towline attached, one on the bow, and one on the stern, and try and gently twist it off the bank.....

basically get 2 massive ships to act as tugs......

finding 2 willing captains (with the approval to do so from head office mind), would be the difficult part..

pawdee · 25-03-2021 10:45AM

Just go around the Cape of Good Hope? Not that much of a hardship surely!

Atlantic Dawn · 25-03-2021 10:48AM

There was talk of taking containers off to lighten the load which would raise it in the water but that in itself would be a huge operation given the height of the ship and where it is in the canal and the number you would need to take off. Likely you bring another smaller container ship with its own cranes alongside.

Sunday/Monday supposed to be highest tide so potentially best chance of it clearing then.

ohnonotgmail · 25-03-2021 10:51AM

pawdee wrote: »

Just go around the Cape of Good Hope? Not that much of a hardship surely!

just the matter of an extra 4600Nm.

Odelay · 25-03-2021 10:52AM

josip wrote: »

From my rural background, my instinct could be to pull it out from the same direction it went in.
But all 3 tugs are on the wrong side for that.
Is that because the tugs are based north of where it grounded and can't get around or would there be other thinking behind what they are trying?

They’re trying the pushy pushy turnie turnie method.

josip · 25-03-2021 12:46PM

Dohvolle wrote: »

This demonstrates how easily those with ill intent can easily shut down one of the world's major shipping choke points. While the world focused on airport security after 9/11, a ship of this size having even the most minor of incidents in the wrong place, lets say off the UK coast, could shut sown the largest ports in Europe for weeks, and hugely impact european Trade. Just look at the panic since the UK stopped becoming a land bridge? Imagine if all the ships that go to Rotterdam, Hamburg or Antwerp, could no longer use the channel because a ship of this size had dumped its load of containers into the water?
The reliance of the sea lanes as a means of supply is often taken for granted. The ease of which they can be shut down more so.

Interesting point, but it would be interesting to find anywhere else in the world, apart from some sections of the Panama Canal that would have such a big impact.
Your Rotterdam-Channel-container example would be a tiny fraction of the inconvenience of this I think.

Ships could still make slow way in the Channel.
Multiple ships could be brought in to remove the containers.
Ships could be diverted to alternative ports.
Only Northern Europe would be affected

Even further up the Suez and they might been able to use the spare channel.

AndyBoBandy · 25-03-2021 12:54PM

Dohvolle wrote: »

Imagine if all the ships that go to Rotterdam, Hamburg or Antwerp, could no longer use the channel because a ship of this size had dumped its load of containers into the water?

I'd imagine though the repercussions of such an incident in the English Channel wouldn't be as harsh as they are now with the Suez canal blocked...

If 1 of the channels in the English Channel was fouled, could/would they operate a stop/go system like we see on our roads, and go to a single directional lane only, getting outbound traffic to depart at the right time, and inbound traffic to slow on approach to the channel to arrive as the 'gate' opens.. Time the gates with the tides to get traffic through quicker...

Would still be havoc though!!

Widdensushi · 26-03-2021 09:35AM

It seems to be all tugs that are around it, surely a suction dredge would be available, used for maintenance on the canal? the ship is 16 metres deep, the further out the reach from the Bank the less effective the excavators will be.

josip · 26-03-2021 10:12AM

Has Musk not offered to free it yet?

stefanovich · 26-03-2021 02:59PM

https://nypost.com/2021/03/26/suez-canal-crisis-may-unleash-worldwide-toilet-paper-shortage/

Lads. Better start stocking up on the toilet paper.

kub · 27-03-2021 11:37AM

yiddo59 wrote: »

Irish Ferries to charter Blue Star 1. Extra tonnage on the Cherbourg run?

https://www.niferry.co.uk/irish-ferries-to-charter-greek-ferry-blue-star-1/

Irish Ferries also said today it would add the RoRo passenger ferry Blue Star 1 to its Rosslare to Pembroke Dock route.

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2021/0326/1206241-irish-ferries-new-route/

Irish Ferries must see some potential here, it seems to go against the common avoid the landbridge mentality by Irish hauliers, The Isle of Innishmore is going to operate a new IF service between Dover and Calais.

27-03-2021 01:12PM

scotchy wrote: »

Still in Dun Laoghaire this evening.

https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2021/0327/1206508-sailor-repatriation/

Most of the crew have left.

blue5000 · 27-03-2021 01:23PM

stefanovich wrote: »

https://nypost.com/2021/03/26/suez-canal-crisis-may-unleash-worldwide-toilet-paper-shortage/

Lads. Better start stocking up on the toilet paper.

Handy little end of first quarter sales boost there.

Atlantic Dawn · 27-03-2021 03:30PM

Yakov P. Golyadkin wrote: »

https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2021/0327/1206508-sailor-repatriation/

Most of the crew have left.

Potential for the trawler to end up being auctioned off on the cheap me thinks.

Good to see the crew getting home.

Jim Gazebo · 27-03-2021 03:35PM

https://www.thejournal.ie/ellie-adham-rescue-5393581-Mar2021/?amp=1&utm_source=twitter_short&__twitter_impression=true

Glad to see this hopefully coming to a happy ending. Tough night for the crew.

Widdensushi · 27-03-2021 04:54PM

I think that article is wrong in saying there are windows knocked in on the trawler, a tug was going to tow it and they blew in windows, they returned to port on their own power.

Widdensushi · 27-03-2021 05:04PM

Looks like the tow line has broken again, no longer under tow.

Widdensushi · 27-03-2021 06:39PM

Helicopter hovering directly above and another nearby for cover, at a guess they are taking crew off.
Boat is listing, taking crew off, one helicopter away, presume with some or all of the crew, the second one is on scene now

Jim Gazebo · 28-03-2021 01:23AM

Widdensushi wrote: »

I think that article is wrong in saying there are windows knocked in on the trawler, a tug was going to tow it and they blew in windows, they returned to port on their own power.

Correct, the tug had the windows knocked in. Sounds treacherous enough now with the crew being airlifted but glad all are safe.

Atlantic Dawn · 28-03-2021 01:27AM

Hopefully the boat can be saved, always loved the rather flash paint design on it...

https://www.shipyards.es/en/ellie-adhamh-2

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