Posted on 03/25/2021 5:35:59 AM PDT by Red Badger
“I see this as a test run. They can block the world’s navies.”
Fill a couple hundred of those containers with some explosives and get a jihadi to make a play for his 72 virgins.
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or a windmill.................
Track Hoe?
Kamalalala was operating it?.....................
Not to mention just closing the Panama Canal. They don't have to block it, they own it thanks to Carter.
The Panama Canal can also be blocked very easily, for months or longer.
The Panama Canal operates on gravity, with the water held in Gatun Lake flowing downhill through the locks.
If Gatun Dam is blown and the lake is drained, the Panama Canal is out of action for months at least.
This means that USN warships on the east coast will take weeks longer to get to “The Battle of Taiwan,” for example.
I don’t need to mention the HEAVY presence of the ChiComs in Panama.
And if the Suez Canal is blocked at the same time, NATO fleets will have to go around Africa to get to the battle.
Pls see 27.
Depends on who you are calling ‘they’.
When a ship transits the canal, it doesnt do so on its own power. The Canal Authority (Egypt) has tugs come alongside and the tugs guide the ship through. The almost certainly send a pilot to the bridge of the transiting ship who coordinates ship steering with tug operation. This is very similar to harbor ops throughout the world.
The Egyptians make ALOT of money with what they charge for transit, so they have little incentive to block the canal.
As an aside, our carrier group transited the canal 6 times in the lead up to the up to Desert Storm. It takes about 12 hours to go through the canal. From the deck it is pretty boring scenery but its was interesting to see the occasion tank hulk (Arab) on the banks; remnants, well preserved in the desert environment, left over from the 67 war.
The name on the side of the ship clearly says Evergreen.
“Damn this traffic jam
How I hate to be late
It hurts my motor to go so slow
Damn this traffic jam
Time I get home my supper will be cold
Damn this traffic jam”
-James Taylor
Even minus explosives, getting a grounded megaship unstuck can be impossible. The one in Suez displaces 220,000 TONS, almost double a USN CVN.
When something that massive, even moving slowly, leaves the channel and hits a bank, it wants to keep going, digging way way in.
There is a Korean Ro/Ro car carrier stuck in Brunswick GA for about a year. Fortunately, it’s not blocking the channel. It went aground, and had to be cut into sections to be removed, with a giant “chain saw” around the hull, like that Italian cruise liner.
Giant crane arrives at Georgia shipwreck awaiting removal
A towering, floating crane has arrived on the Georgia coast to remove in giant chunks a cargo ship that overturned more than a year ago
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/giant-crane-arrives-georgia-shipwreck-awaiting-removal-73862270
thank you.
The USS Missouri grounding occurred 17 January 1950 when the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) ran aground while sailing out of Chesapeake Bay. No one was injured, but the battleship remained stuck for over two weeks before being freed from the sand. The ship was so damaged that she had to return to port and enter dry dock for repairs.
Evergreen is the corporate owner.
Maybe it should say ‘Everclear’?...............
The article says its a Japanese company but I’m thinking Chinese.
EVERGREEN is the container shipping company and is based in Taiwan. One of the biggest. You’ll see their containers in ports, trucking yards, and on flat beds on US highways and around the world. That’s not the vessel’s name. Their ships just customarily incorporate the word “Ever” into the names.
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