Posted on 03/29/2021 9:05:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
On Monday morning, a canal service provider said the Ever Given container ship — the 99-ton ship that measures 1,312 feet by 107 feet by 47 feet — had finally been dislodged after it got stuck in the Suez Canal and blocked ship traffic for six days.
Leth Agencies, the canal service provider, confirmed that the Ever Given had been freed, was floating once again, and was moving through the canal, the Associated Press reported.
NBC News foreign correspondent Raf Sanchez shared a video on Twitter of the ship moving again
At least 369 vessels are waiting to transit the canal, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said, according to Reuters Container ships, bulk carriers, oil tankers, liquefied natural gas (LNG) vessels, and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) vessels had all been stranded for days, according to SCA Chairman Osama Rabie.
“We will not waste one second,” Rabie told Egyptian state television.
The Suez Canal is a historic feat of human engineering. For millennia, no viable water route existed between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. Goods from India and China, which easily made the sea transit to East Africa and Arabia, had to travel over land via the Silk Road — a much slower and more perilous journey for merchants. Ancient kings and emperors attempted to create canals to link the Red and Mediterranean Seas, but each attempt failed.
Following the lead of Portugal, seagoing European kingdoms traveled south around the entire continent of Africa in order to reach the East. In fact, Christopher Columbus reconnected the Old World with the Americas during his search for an alternate route to Asia.
Only in 1869 did the Ottoman Empire finally complete the 120-mile Suez Canal, reducing the distance between the Arabian Sea and London by approximately 5,500 miles.
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Does this mean the children slaves, who the KooQs told us were packed into the cargo containers, are safe?
I thought we didn't need those evil fossil fuels. Just turn on the wind turbines and the solar cells. Right?
trial run
Dang it. Just as I was getting ready to restore the Silk Road...
“99-ton ship”
Now that’s impressive. How did they manage to get 20,000 containers on a ship the size of the Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria?
Still nothing about the demographics of the captain or the obscene gesture presented by the route taken.
“On Monday morning, a canal service provider said the Ever Given container ship — the 99-ton ship that measures 1,312 feet by 107 feet by 47 feet”
What’s it made out of, feathers, nanotubes? What?
It’s kinda funny. They spell ever given “Evergreen”
Now that’s an impressive rescue boat at the bow of the Evergreen.
I think we’ve learned something here: We need to grease the sides of the canal.
All very interesting. Apparently, a new switching unit that is 1312 ft. long, has been invented to shut off international trade at a moments notice. Nice.
Women drivers.
Is that guy on the tugboat wearing a Rolex?!
LOL!
They like to call themselves reporters.
I saw a report on this ship that it had hit a tour boat before.
The shipping company is Evergreen. The ship's name is Ever Given.
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