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Container ship clogs Suez Canal: Before the accident, the captain drove a model into the sea - and that is tough

2021-03-31T06:40:48.896Z


The Suez Canal is blocked by the "Ever Given". The blockage continues. Before entering the Suez Canal, the huge container ship drove a hot course.


The Suez Canal is blocked by the "Ever Given".

The blockage continues.

Before entering the Suez Canal, the huge container ship drove a hot course.

Update from March 26, 10:01 a.m.:

Was that on purpose or just a coincidence?

A video on Youtube shows the waiting course of the "Ever Given" before it entered the Suez Canal on Tuesday.

While the other ships barely move, the huge container ship drives around cheerfully.

If you watch the video to the end, the image of a penis comes to light.

Vesselfinder, a company that offers shipping-related services, has drawn attention to this.

The freighter's management sees nothing wrong with this.

A spokesman for Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement told Der Spiegel: "It is not unusual for ships waiting to enter, meandering around beforehand." If this is really the case, the navigator of "Ever Given" has inadvertently become an artist.

The freighter is still waiting to be made afloat again.

Suez Canal blockade: salvage of the wrecked container ship is ongoing

Update from March 26th, 8.50 a.m.:

The recovery of the freighter that has been stuck in the Suez Canal for days is likely to drag on beyond the weekend.

The work to get the container cargo ship afloat again should take about a week, possibly longer, reported the Bloomberg news agency on Friday.

The agency relied on unnamed sources.

The AFP news agency previously quoted a representative of the Egyptian government, whose assessment is shorter

(see update from March 26, 8:09 a.m.)

.

Shipping on the canal is suspended until further notice.

This has caused a long traffic jam.

The oil market has recently seen strong price fluctuations, as the Suez Canal is also of great importance for the international oil trade.

Update from March 26th, 8:09 a.m.:

According to a representative of the Egyptian government, the

blockade of the Suez Canal by a stuck container ship

(see first report)

takes a maximum of three days, contrary to other estimates.

Shipping on the canal between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean will be "resumed within 48 to 72 hours at most," said the advisor to Egypt's head of state Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for seaports, Mohab Mamisch, on Thursday evening to the AFP news agency.

As the former head of the Suez Canal Authority, Mamisch explained that he had already witnessed several rescue operations.

“I know every inch of the canal.

"

The owner, the Japanese leasing company Shoei Kisen Kaisha, had announced before Mamisch's statements that it was “extremely difficult” to get the “Ever Given” back on track.

The canal administration sent several tugs, and a team from the Dutch specialist company Smit Salvage also set off.

The boss of the parent company Boskalis, Peter Berdowski, told the Dutch broadcaster Nieuwsuur that getting the container ship moving again could "take days or weeks".

Suez Canal Blockade: Effects on the Port of Hamburg

Update from March 25th, 9:31 am:

The accident of the container

freighter

"Ever Given" in the Suez Canal is also causing trouble in the Port of Hamburg.

The longer the traffic jam lasts, "the quieter it will be in the Port of Hamburg," said Christian Denso, spokesman for the Association of German Shipowners (VDR) to the dpa.

After that, however, the ships would come together.

The "Ever Given" is no stranger to Hamburg.

In 2019 it caused a collision with a ferry.

The freighter went off course on February 9, 2019 and squeezed the “Finkenwerder” port ferry at the Blankenese jetty.

According to the investigations, wind from the southwest had favored the collision.

In addition, a suction pulled the stern of the freighter towards the banks of the Elbe.

Property damage to the amount of around one million euros was incurred on the ferry and the pier.

Suez Canal blockade: Eight tug boats work to free the wrecked container ship

Update from March 24th, 9:52 p.m.:

After a container ship was stranded in the Suez Canal, tug boats managed to move the freighter.

Waiting ships should be allowed to sail again as soon as it is moved to a different position, the shipping and logistics company GAC announced on Wednesday, citing the Egyptian Suez Canal authority.

According to the authorities, the freighter ran aground on Tuesday because the captain had poor visibility due to a sand storm.

According to the Suez Canal Authority, eight tug boats are in use to free the freighter.

However, the wind and the size of the ship make their job difficult, according to the GAC.

According to the ship's radars, it is the freighter "Ever Given".

According to

vesselfinder.com

, it is 400 meters long and almost 59 meters wide.

The ship, built in 2018, is sailing under the Panamanian flag, it came from China and is on its way to Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

According to experts, the freighter is one of the largest container ships in the world.

Suez Canal blockade: "The longer the closure lasts, the more drastic the effects will be"

The Association of German Shipowners (VDR) hopes that the blockade will end as soon as possible.

"The longer the block lasts and the longer the uncertainty lasts, the more drastic the effects of this block will be," said association spokesman Christian Denso of the dpa.

The main problem is that nobody knows whether the detour around the Cape of Good Hope is worthwhile.

The Federation of German Industries warned of rising costs for companies that rely on sea transport.

Supply chains stalled, among other things because of the unpunctual ships, said the deputy chief executive Holger Lösch.

The situation in international container shipping is tense anyway, the blockade is now tightening it again.

Huge container ship wrecked in the Suez Canal

First report from March 24th:

One of the most important waterways in the world is closed in both directions.

On Tuesday, a huge container ship ran aground in the Suez Canal and lay across.

According to AFP, the Taiwanese operator Evergreen Marine cites a gust of wind that drove the freighter off course as a possible reason.

The affected ship, the 400 meter long and 59 meter wide "MV Ever Given", was en route from China to the Netherlands.

Tugs and excavator vehicles have so far not been able to free the freighter from its deadlock.

According to the Egyptian Suez Canal Authority, it could take days before the shipping route is free again.

In the meantime, a traffic jam of over 100 ships that want to pass the canal is said to have formed.

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The MV Ever Given lies across the Suez Canal

© Planet Labs Inc./picture alliance / dpa / AP

Suez Canal blockade: Oil prices rise

Oil prices reacted to the glitch on Wednesday.

In the morning, the price of a barrel (159 liters) of Brent North Sea oil rose by 84 cents to $ 61.63 compared to the previous day.

The price of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) branded American crude rose 62 cents to $ 58.38.

It was only on Tuesday that oil prices reached their lowest level since the beginning of February.

The main cause was concerns about the falling demand for crude oil due to possible economic burdens from rising corona infections, especially in Europe.

The Suez Canal is used by 19,000 ships

The Suez Canal shortens the journey from Asia to Europe via the Red Sea and the Mediterranean.

The passage through the approximately 200-kilometer-long canal costs the equivalent of 250,000 euros per ship.

According to the Suez Canal Authority, almost 19,000 ships with a total of over a billion tons of freight passed through the canal last year.

The Suez Canal was only expanded a few years ago.

List of rubric lists: © Screenshot Youtube / Vesselfinder

Source: merkur

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