Suez Canal blocked by grounded container ship since at least 0600 UTC today - Traffic in both directions stopped; Millions of yuros' Amazon delivery dates updated

[Menotaur]

I am a little surprised they are willing to risk now taking it through - but I guess they know if she is going to make it through. Sigh, I had hopes for an ending a little grander for us pessimists. I'm a little upset right now, I am going off to sulk. I really don't want to post about it anymore. Sniff...

 

[JoeBidenSniffMe]

Evergreen Lines vessel "EVER GIVEN" has been stuck sideways in the Suez Canal for the past day, reportedly grounded on the side of the canal. It looks like nothing can get past. Every tug between Port Said and Suez is out there pushing on it from both sides, to no avail. Apparently it's being refloated now or something? Anyway, there's a giant traffic jam on both sides of the Canal now.

The earliest report of it at that position was 1800 UTC, but it might have been stuck for longer. I don't know if 4h is enough for that much traffic to build up at the entries to the Canal. ED: looks like it was since 0600 UTC on March 23, not 1800:
http://www.maritimebulletin.net/2021/03/23/mega-container-ship-hard-aground-in-suez-canal/ (archive)

For the zoomies among us, the Suez is how shipping traffic moves between Europe and Asia without having to take a longass detour around Africa. The last time it was closed was the Six Day War.

The ship, and a video below of the jam behind it:

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1374465748458893314

An overview of the situation:
https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1374438210315513864 (archive)
EVER GIVEN on vesselfinder:

https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9811000

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You can see pretty clearly in picrel that the bow's hiked up on the sand. That line where the blue paint meets red paint should normally be horizontal.
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Each of those dots is a stationary ship, in (L/R) the middle, at the south (Red Sea) approach, and the north (Med) approach.
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Hopefully all those moving tracks still approaching the canal, mean that the industry knows something we don't, and think that the Canal will be cleared soon.

Evergreen Lines vessel "EVER GIVEN" has been stuck sideways in the Suez Canal for the past day, reportedly grounded on the side of the canal. It looks like nothing can get past. Every tug between Port Said and Suez is out there pushing on it from both sides, to no avail. Apparently it's being refloated now or something? Anyway, there's a giant traffic jam on both sides of the Canal now.

The earliest report of it at that position was 1800 UTC, but it might have been stuck for longer. I don't know if 4h is enough for that much traffic to build up at the entries to the Canal. ED: looks like it was since 0600 UTC on March 23, not 1800:
http://www.maritimebulletin.net/2021/03/23/mega-container-ship-hard-aground-in-suez-canal/ (archive)

For the zoomies among us, the Suez is how shipping traffic moves between Europe and Asia without having to take a longass detour around Africa. The last time it was closed was the Six Day War.

The ship, and a video below of the jam behind it:

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1374465748458893314

An overview of the situation:
https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1374438210315513864 (archive)
EVER GIVEN on vesselfinder:

https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9811000

View attachment 2022956
You can see pretty clearly in picrel that the bow's hiked up on the sand. That line where the blue paint meets red paint should normally be horizontal.
View attachment 2022970

Each of those dots is a stationary ship, in (L/R) the middle, at the south (Red Sea) approach, and the north (Med) approach.
View attachment 2022987View attachment 2022988View attachment 2022989

Hopefully all those moving tracks still approaching the canal, mean that the industry knows something we don't, and think that the Canal will be cleared soon.

https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8/when-you're-too-%F0%9D%99%8F%F0%9D%99%83%F0%9D%99%84%F0%9D%98%BE%F0%9D%98%BE-for:b

When You're Too 𝙏𝙃𝙄𝘾𝘾 for Global Trade

Evergreen is just too dummy thicc for the global economy to handleMusic A Lost People - Big Booty Bitches [HQ STUDIO VERSION]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

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[The Demon Baby]

Egypt's president is calling for "salvage teams." LOL
Happening still on.

Investigation begins into how Ever Given was stranded

Huge vessel was freed from canal bank on Monday

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Desu Vult]

Are they pulling it back out, or are they actually trying to take that thing THROUGH the canal?

 

[DeadFish]

We won't hit pause till blood is flowing...
You know I wanted this to become a major shit show cause it would be a nice dumpster fire that isn't politics.

 

[Ghost In The Rain]

You know I wanted this to become a major shit show cause it would be a nice dumpster fire that isn't politics.

Don't be so sure, it could still easily be political. There is no reason to believe that this couldn't have been done by the CIA. Or MI6. Or Mossad. Or freaking Brazil's intel agency for all it matters. It could be an IRA operation. Actually I'm not so sure I would price this outside of the Republic of Sealand's resources.

In some ways I'd be disappointed if this is just a mess of bad luck system failings and general incompetence. This was a relatively low cost method of creating quite a massive change in world affairs, and for some entities that change could be seen as good or profitable. Doubly so if they knew it was coming. So really I'll be sad if it turns out that this managed to happen randomly and organically before some Dr Evil tier hedge fund manager realized they could make a ton of money with one creative up front investment and a couple of bribes.

 

[Dark Edea]

They can use air bags and bilge pumps to mitigate a decent amount of leaking from the compromised hull.

So yeah, get ready for inflation!

 

[Corette]

Did they manage to get it stuck again?

edit.
It seems to be moving according to FleetMon -stream.

 

[Daughter of Cernunnos]

Suez Canal is a neocolonial shit that should not exist.

 

[kcbbq]

I was promised a massive war by the doomposters. Credibility through the floor.

 

[DuckSucker]

I was hoping it would have been stuck for longer and the area could make up the lost money by having it as a tourist attraction, tours, ect..

They should have started a patreon with all that rule34 porn being drawn of it.

That was the weirdest part of it all, but I kinda thought it was the most funny.

 

[Dark Edea]

Now is the perfect time to attack. Cripple the freighter further and damage all the rescue equipment inside the canal.

Don't let me down, Islam.

 

[Arm Pit Cream]

Bimbofication Boat

 

[Aldeland]

Now is the perfect time to attack. Cripple the freighter further and damage all the rescue equipment inside the canal.

Don't let me down, Islam.

All it takes is one motorbike and 1 rpg.

 

[Hackallier]

Now is the perfect time to attack. Cripple the freighter further and damage all the rescue equipment inside the canal.

Don't let me down, Islam.

The ship is currently in the middle of a lake though. Even before your post it was outside the canal.

 

[Carlos Weston Chantor]

Suez Canal is a neocolonial shit that should not exist.

Suez Canal just needs more dilating

 

[SheerHeartAttack]

I wonder what sort of knock on effects we'll see. The ships have had to wait 6 days in the canal? Will these ships have any supply issues? Another poster was talking about trains rushing over the West coast to take on the backlog. I'm guessing with how things usually go, this will be an issue for at most a month and then it will go away.

 

[The Lawgiver]

Bimbofication Boat
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Why the fuck do none of the drawings of the boat being stuck actually depict them actually being stuck? It's like nobody's even trying to be funny anymore and just wants to fuck the boat because reasons. With other disaster based humanizations in the past it'd be depicted in like a funny way but this shit just like "ah yeah slap the evergreen logo on some anime woman and put her in a pool saying she's stuck". Get outta here with that shit yo If I'm gonna see an anime girl version of the boat wanna see an anime girl actually stuck with her head wedged in the edge of the canal or some shit.

 

[Blasterisk]

Why the fuck do none of the drawings of the boat being stuck actually depict them actually being stuck? It's like nobody's even trying to be funny anymore and just wants to fuck the boat because reasons. With other disaster based humanizations in the past it'd be depicted in like a funny way but this shit just like "ah yeah slap the evergreen logo on some anime woman and put her in a pool saying she's stuck". Get outta here with that shit yo If I'm gonna see an anime girl version of the boat wanna see an anime girl actually stuck with her head wedged in the edge of the canal or some shit.

...because a boat with arms could just lift itself?

smh these mammals and their appendages

 

[Dark Edea]

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The ship is currently in the middle of a lake though. Even before your post it was outside the canal.

Nah that's wrong.