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

[jje100010001]

So what this whole affair tells me is that if Iran, Hezbollah, Yemeni rebels or anyone else with modest state backing wants to wreak absolute fucking havoc on the West, all they have to do is drop half a dozen mines in the canal or blow up one big tanker and blam - 5 months of lack of supplies to North America.

It would be like the plot of Casino Royal. Someone shorts Amazon stock by millions and then blows up a cargo ship, making a trillion dollars as the Bezos warehouses run empty.

The more efficient a system, the more fragile it becomes. Is that some sort of engineering principle? Because our global trade infrastructure has become very efficient indeed.

Not efficient. Complexity and overly centralized.

That's the fundamental crisis of the modern economy- it's become so 'efficient' (in financial terms) that nearly every single failsafe has been removed. It's not efficient IRL (manufacturing nearby allows you to do better product testing), but it's more expensive than paying a legion of Chinese farmworkers pennies for what they do.

It's a crisis waiting to happen, and if Western politicians had any sense (they don't), they would be calling for the repatriation of mission-critical manufacturing back to their continents.

 

[annoyingfuck]

I'm on page 8, please tell me in the remaining pages, someone came up with Taiwanese ship = fuck you China, regardless of where the crew is from!

WTF is with all the porn, what happened to the world that everything is now porn?

 

[Reporterward]

WTF is with all the porn, what happened to the world that everything is now porn?

I blame the trend on individuals on forums who have ANIMEA girls as their avatar.

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[Dark Edea]

WTF is with all the porn, what happened to the world that everything is now porn?

The world got better, that's what happened.

COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMING HUH HUH HUHHHHHHHHHHH.

 

[The High Prophet of Truth]

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1379385147649314816

 

[DeadFish]

Oh happy day. Too bad it didn't last as long as last time

 

[ObeseScreamingBlackMan]

They really need to finish that dredging project.

 

[talk sh1t]

We already have one. The Yuxinou connects Chongquing and Duisburg. It goes 8 times a week and is twice as fast and considerably less expensive than the sea route. From Duisburg you can go directly to the US East Coast or to any North Sea port you like.

How does the over-all volumetric flow (you know what I mean) of a railway compare to that of massive ships loaded with containers, though? Is it really a viable alternative? Not a rhetorical question, I'm just dumb.

 

[The Notorious RGB]

How does the over-all volumetric flow (you know what I mean) of a railway compare to that of massive ships loaded with containers, though? Is it really a viable alternative? Not a rhetorical question, I'm just dumb.

Since you need a ~10.000 car train to make up for one Ever Given, pretty badly. The containers alone, placed end-to-end are 122km in total. Add some extra for train parts, and we probably get >150km of train.
Wait, acktchually, you can stack them (in some parts of the world alt least), so train length would only be half of that.

 

[DeadFish]

So how would a jihadi block a canal? Like Panama or suez or whatever? Like how much sand to dam thing?

 

[Honest Coyote]

So how would a jihadi block a canal? Like Panama or suez or whatever? Like how much sand to dam thing?

At risk of glowing, place a mine in the canal or a limpit mine on the rear of a boat near the propeller. Less moving parts than destroying the canal, and you only need one good strike to force the canal closed until the ship is rescued and frogmen sweep the entire thing. Make people afraid to do something and they'll deny the use of something on their own. Original definition of terrorism.

 

[FarmerJohn]

Ever Given Ship Banned From Leaving Suez Canal Until Owners Pay Up To $1 Billion In Compensation

The giant Ever Given ship might have been freed from the Suez Canal in Egypt, but the drama is far from over.

www.unilad.co.uk

ONE BILLION DOLLARS Compensation

 

[Desu Vult]

Ever Given Ship Banned From Leaving Suez Canal Until Owners Pay Up To $1 Billion In Compensation

The giant Ever Given ship might have been freed from the Suez Canal in Egypt, but the drama is far from over.

www.unilad.co.uk

ONE BILLION DOLLARS Compensation

Wasn't that thing supposed to be driven by Egypts own canal pilots in first place?

OTOH, a shipment of Bad Dragon dildos is now interned for foreseeable future. Wonder what the furries have to say sbout it...

 

[7he47r0n]

At risk of glowing, place a mine in the canal or a limpit mine on the rear of a boat near the propeller. Less moving parts than destroying the canal, and you only need one good strike to force the canal closed until the ship is rescued and frogmen sweep the entire thing. Make people afraid to do something and they'll deny the use of something on their own. Original definition of terrorism.

Or just purchase a decommissioned war vessel from a third world country, and blow that up in the canal. Several, if you're feeling particularly generous.