Looks like the Truman was either about to enter the Suez canal or had just exited..
Yes. I’m a bit surprised that a Nimitz class carrier can transit the Suez, and perhaps that it would given the current yin yangs in the region. A ship transiting the Suez or Panama Canals is a sitting duck. Not that there is anyone in Egypt who would want to do us harm ....
VLCC’s can’t use the Suez and it’s been reported that the big shipping companies have been rerouting ships to avoid the Red Sea entirely.
Collisions between large ships are rare but they do happen, typically in narrow shipping channels approaching ports or maneuvering for docking or an anchorage. It’s all a question of which ship had the right of way, or suffered a loss of steering. Large ships aren’t supposed to run into bridges either, but that didn’t stop a freighter from producing the most spectacular accident in years in Baltimore not long ago.
Looks like the Truman was either about to enter the Suez canal or had just exited..
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Yep. More preliminary info at What’s going on with Shipping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqRe-ouavjw