The first dock is several miles offshore, I didn't know there were two, which unloads supplies from Cyprus and shuttles it to the land based pier.
Note: Diagram is a general representation of the process and doesn't represent the actual positioning or configuration of equipment. Diagram is not to scale. Sources: Department of Defense (diagrams); XVIII Airborne Corps (text); U.S. Central Command (chronology) Jemal R. Brinson/THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
This administration could screw up a soup sandwich.
You can’t fix stupid.
Major Fail
Failure to build a protecting breakwater - every port/dock open to a large body of water has some sort of breakwater built to protect it. Must have been personally designed by Biden immediately before his ice cream arrived.
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Lofty my a@@. Overly complicated for an environment as unpredictable as the ocean. More money laundering through fake major projects. Nothing “lofty” about it.
“weather and maritime conditions were not accounted for”.
What I’ve learned about this particular fiasco is from the YouTube channel What’s Going On with Shipping, so I’m not sharing any kind of personal expertise in this matter.
The pier system is primarily designed to be used in already existing harbors that have been wrecked by war or natural disasters. The conditions off of Gaza are not suitable because of winds and wave heights common there.
In addition, both the Army and Navy have disposed of assets that support the construction and operation of these kinds of piers. At least two large Army vessels suffered major malfunctions during the mission to build the pier. (Yes, the Army has ships and the expertise to operate them).
No doubt one of Biden’s ‘handlers’ thought that building a pier to rescue the ‘starving people of Gaza’ would be a great thing to add to the STOTU speech and perhaps win votes in Michigan. Little, if any thought was devoted to either the cost or practicality of the pier.
I hear that just up the coast, there’s a perfectly good harbor.
jimmy carter deja vu ...
A few hundred million here, a few hundred million there..
$252,000,000+ US taxpayer money.