Suez Canal blocked after 400m-long container ship wedges against both sides of waterway

Weren’t the Russians going to send out a bunch of Subs from the Black Sea recently? How convenient, now they have to go all the way around Africa to get to the Arabian Sea.

Their logistics for having subs in the Black Sea is not really conducive for hasty deployment IMO.

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I believe a lot of subs launched in the eastern Mediterranean or were I should say. I doubt they are there any longer.

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What difference does this make for any subs? They would have to run on the surface in the canal, shallow water. That throws out 90% of their advantage. There major advantage is they are not to be seen.

Interesting take from Mr Obvious.
Women drivers...Oi

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Funny, I would not trust anything Mr. Oblivious says. He says twice in that video that the ship is up side down. Also any qualified woman ship master was it's captain and was "driving the boat" when it hit.

The words he uses do not mean what he thinks they mean.

I read today about the tens of billion$ worth of merchandise that is queuing up on the South end of the canal, and how this will throw a huge body blow into already reeling supply chains, hit hard by the pandemic.

Reportedly an elite salvage team from the Netherlands (when you need something floated, "Better Call the Dutch") is heading to the scene to help with un-FUBAR'ing the situation.

The word from this team, and I won't rule out they are making the smart PR play here (i.e. under-promise and over-deliver), is that the salvage effort could take WEEKS to set right

A team from Smit Salvage was due to arrive on Thursday at the scene where the MV Ever Given ran aground in a sandstorm, said Peter Berdowski, CEO of its parent company Boskalis.

"It's really a heavy whale on the beach, so to speak," Berdowski told the Dutch TV news programme Nieuwsuur late Wednesday, when asked about the challenges of moving the vessel.

"I don't want to speculate, but it can take days or weeks."

A large mount of the goods waiting on the South end of the canal are products from China en-route to the EU.

See how much winning "globalism" brings?

I don't have hours enough in the day to enumerate how many things can go sideways in the "global supply chain" and end up costing YOU the consumer, more $$$ and waiting much longer for your parcels, to quite literally "arrive on the slow boat" from China.

It's just utter MADNESS that this situation has been allowed to develop where major chunks of the worlds manufactured goods originate in one country and drift around the world on 400 meter floating skyscrapers, burning and leaking diesel fuel about, dropping container boxes here and there and now bashing into things.

Don't worry though, after a few more hair-brained episodes where we see how many other intricate, delicate "global supply" logistics can be disrupted (next up: clogging the Panama Canal), the powers that be will fix everything.

Get the manufacturing out of China and back closer to the consumers you ask?

NO silly! They'll just shift all the container ship freight to drones!

So instead of stray mega-containers stuffing up canals, we'll shift over to random drone crashes into dwellings. That'll be much better than this situation, don't you think?

originally posted by: EndtheMadnessNow

Ever Given: www.vesselfinder.com...

Here's a thread on the traffic jam...

twitter.com...

When drunk drivers attack.

Who knows what happened, I'm at a loss to explain.

a reply to: Agit8dChop

Looks like a dick going into a human brain
its a mind #

Obviously Not an Accident

hundreds of cargo laden ships are held hostage in this drama....

someone has shorted the markets and this impasse is the Ace-in-the-hole insurance ploy/plot...

If you wanted to de value shars in Companies.
THIS would be a good way.

originally posted by: Silcone Synapse
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When I saw this on the news this morning,my first thought was that it was intentional.

Last year the UN told us that 2021 would be a year of hunger,famine and food crisis.
A huge amount of food goes though suez.

"Vaccine hesitance" has become a problem for the governments of the world.
How to you sell lots of units of something many people don't want?

You create a false scarcity situation,then human psychology takes over and people start queing up/fighting to get vaccinated..

Huge amounts of covid vaccines transit through Suez.


Hopefully I am just over suspicious,and the situation will resolve fast-but I cannot help thinking this is a planned event.

Creating scarcity is something you do when you want to provoke riots.. honestly i don't see the link between scarcity, and people running to get a vaccine that's potentially deadly...?

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Its human psychology.
As we are hunter gatherers(or were for many millenia)-when we percieve a shortage of something,we are more likley to want to buy/have it,as it has become scarce so we do not know when we may be able to next get such an item(used to apply to food).It doesnt matter if there is no scarcity,only our perception of scarcity is what matters.

Much of the advertising industry and the retail industry use the technique to make us buy stuff even when we don't need it.

Think of the posters in shops-Buy now while stocks last!
Or the panic buyers of toilet rolls at the start of covid-there was no shortage,but people percieved there was about to be,so rushed out to buy as many rolls as they could(which of course did cause a lack of stock,which in turn made more people panic buy as they saw "evidence" of their percieved reality(the empty shelves).
Its appealing to that part of our brains that we used to use to hoard food or food sources when we were a pre industrialised society.


EDIT forgot link about false scarcity:

Generally speaking, low supply combined with strong demand means high price.
So perhaps it comes as no shock that it's common practice in some businesses and industries to overstate the scarcity of a certain item in order to spike demand and perceived value.

science.howstuffworks.com...




Anyway,the Suez situaton looks as though it could cause very serious problems as it s being reported that the ship "might take weeks" to remove.
www.npr.org...

That has very serious implications for not only the vaccines but the global food trade-not only for the middle east although they may be harder hit-but this could easily have major consequences for the wider world.
A huge amount of trade/food/resources go through the canal,and there are somewhere around $30 billion of those resources jamming up the canal behind the stuck ship-and it has only been a couple of days.

Is it the first Black Swan event of 2021?
We wll find out..
Remember the UN have been warning of serious famines this year since the arrival of covid.
This Suez event is certainly not going to help matters.

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Creating scarcity is something you do when you want to provoke riots.. honestly i don't see the link between scarcity, and people running to get a vaccine that's potentially deadly...?

It's all about the distraction. Magicians use it all the time.

Don't look at this hand, it is doing the trick. Look at the thing in this hand, the interesting gimmick that draws the eyes. Poof, wasn't that a nice trick?

What is the trick is the real question?
The boarder?
The gun grab?
One of the other papers Biden waves a pen over?
The injections?

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Dear ATS Readers, Writers,

Thank you SS for that great post with follow up information.

Well, sadly, it has gone pear shaped.... the quick fix is not working, and now looks like a long drawn out affair to sort it out.

The thing about Hillary and the call sign is beyond weird...H3RC.... Hillary's middle name is Diane...so the "3" doesn't represent a middle name that begins with an "E". Still strange as all get out.

Does she have a cargo container full of smuggled child sex slaves onboard?

And the course it sailed draws a penis on the map.... even weirder. The ship sure did some odd manoeuvres prior to its entry into the Canal.

Some military jet pilots have gotten into trouble drawing certain things in the sky with their flight paths too.

This story is getting bigger than Ben Hur, with its side stories, footpath it traced in its travels, and after so many odd things, the chances of it being just an accident seems to narrow a bit more.

I know Asian ladies can "hide" their age pretty good sometimes, but is it just me, or does the pictures of the captain show a very very young attractive lady to hold such a high title/ranking? To me she looks maybe early 30's at the oldest...Ha! That is of course, IF that is the real captain in the pictures. To achieve that rank, usually requires quite a few years serving on ships doesn't it?

Perhaps she is just one brilliant young lady, and was outstanding amongst her peers in the industry? Maybe she is a lot older than the pictures imply? I do know a Thai lady in her late 50's that looks maybe 30 yrs old... so.... ???

It gets stranger by the day, and the delay seems to be getting longer by the day too.

Noticed any ships deciding to go the long way around yet? Cape of South Africa? I reckon some might go that way, but do/did they have enough extra fuel on board to make the extended passage? An idle ship is a ship not making any money.

EDIT: Tanker Rates Rise As Global Shippers Scramble To Reroute Ships Around Africa

After posting, I did a google search, and yep, re-routing around Africa...has begun along with increased shipping costs.

Anyhow, this mess will be going on for some time now it looks like.

2021, is turning out just as stinky as 2020 was... so far.

Pravdaseeker

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Greetings St Udio. IF someone knew this was going to happen, they most certainly could have profited from it by shorting certain stocks etc...if they were set up to do dubious deeds via computer.

I imagine there is someone somewhere looking into this possible angle on this debacle.

Still hoping it is just a major stuff up; and no James Bond stuff going on.

Pravdaseeker

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You know, in the age of computerised ships even they may be hackable?.

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TY for that thought...

here's a real news commentary video... which sheds new light on the developing shipping crisis, a little over 4 minutes but clearly presenting evidence the situation was planned by sinister plotters

what other reason for the Ship's (really odd) sailing pattern before jamming into the narrow channel, with plausable denial being played by the Bad Actors on board the vessel


see: www.bitchute.com...

title: SUEZ CANAL BLOCKED: A "WORST CASE SCENARIO FOR GLOBAL TRADE"

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Greetings again St Udio.

Once again, it is highly possible what you are saying is true; only people on the "inside" would know.

Plausible deniability.... but mission accomplished if there were a nefarious mission to be accomplished.

My thoughts are 60-40 now it was a deliberate act...

But good luck proving that in court right?

Pravdaseeker

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Dear ATS Readers, Writers,

Funny how a lot of the possible "scenarios" on this ship could go really wrong or bad that have been brought up by ATS posters...... have been brought up in a new news article.

Releasing Container Ship From Suez Canal Could Capsize It

While the global shipping industry bleeds $400 million each hour the massive Ever Given container ship stays stuck in the sand of the Suez Canal, an elite team of salvors on the ground in Egypt is facing an entirely different problem: How do you make a top-heavy ship stuck in shifting sands weigh less without capsizing it?“They’ll need a full survey of the seabed and canal bottom to see what the extent of grounding is,” Nick Sloane, the salvage master who miraculously led the removal of the Costa Concordia cruise ship in 2014 off the island of Giglio, told The Daily Beast. “The worst case is that the ship is presently supported over her bow and stern areas, meaning possible sags in the middle.”

Those sags could lead to the ship splitting in two, spilling the fuel and cargo—which includes COVID-19 supplies like respirators and personal protection equipment made in China en route to Europe—into the canal, making it temporarily impassable. “The risk is that it could also become top heavy and capsize,” Captain John Konrad, founder and CEO of gCaptain shipping industry website, said. “And that would be catastrophic.”

So now, it has really gotten to be a very dicey deal on unsticking this huge ship.

Pumping down the fuel oil and ballast water tanks will make the ship EXTRA top heavy! Good grief....

Danged of you do, and danged if you don't....

It has gone from oops, to "pear shaped", to turned to custard, and now..... fermented rotten custard!

This story just gets worse and worse....

There were 2 things in the world that got blamed for EVERYTHING wrong.... El Nino, and Trump.....

Now we can add a third..... when the magnetic pole shift goes down... yep..... Trump and Evergreen cargo container were at fault.

Sorry for the dark humour, but at this point, it is about all us peasants in the grand stands can do.... pass the popcorn, peanuts, and crackerjacks....

Game on, play ball!!

Pravdaseeker

Brief update on the Ever (Unfor)Given...

“Another attempt to re-float the vessel earlier today, 26 March 2021, was not successful. Smit Salvage team on board confirm there will be two additional tugs of 220 – 240 T bollard pull arriving by 28 March 2021 to assist in the re-floating of the ship.”

gCaptain

Meanwhile...

Ever Given’s Operator Orders 20 New Ultra-Large Ships at Samsung Heavy Industries

Cool video of what it looks like to transit the Suez Canal on a massive container ship:


Ooops, "Milano Bridge" container ship takes out a gantry crane at Busan Port.