Suez Canal blocked: How to keep ships from running aground | DW News
The operators of Egypt’s Suez Canal say technical or human error could have caused a huge container ship to run aground. Engineers are working round the clock to refloat the Ever Given. The vessel has been blocking one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes for the last five days. The chairman of the canal authority hopes a dredging operation will free the ship in the next few days.
How did the Ever Given, one of the biggest container ships ever built, end up blocking one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes? And how long will it stay there? The chairman of the Suez Canal Authority is facing more questions than he can answer. But he says more than just strong winds caused the accident.
But while experts investigate further, the ship still has to be freed. 20,000 ton of sand have been removed from the area around the bow, and 9,000 tons of ballast water have been pumped out, in order to lighten the vessel. The operation has so far been unsuccessful – but two more tugs are on their way. If they can’t move it, the next step will be to unload the cargo.
The German insurance group Allianz says the blockage is costing the global economy between 6 and 10 billion dollars a week. A tenth of the world’s merchant shipping uses the canal.
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World starts calculating the impact on the economy. Corona virus + evergreen
@Faust Von Barley very good observation your onto something hint economy COVID evergreen canal block gas prices rising this whole mention of child trafficking being brought up then not brought up can we look in those containers
@anton you think
Calculating. You might be on to something there.
@Samantha Rondeau buy Bitcoin and other crypto and hold
@Samantha Rondeau Trump told us this would be coming we he said “They are not coming for me, they are coming for you. I am only in their way”.
Ship should be renamed EVERSTUCK
@Mike Porecki the ever grounded?
the ever gum up the works? the ever good grief? the ever goiter?
STFU
It might be stuck until November around THANKSGIVEN.
Hilarious!!!!
loool
I can’t wait for the movie about this to come out. Starring Tom Hanks as the excavator operator, he’s a grizzled veteran persuaded to come out of retirement and perform his duties one last time, thereby saving the immigrant kids locked in the containers. Timothee Chalamet guest stars as one of the kids. With Tim Dillon as the comedy relief and driver of the boat
Or Tom Hanks is the pilot, and the actual ship Captain yells at him ” YOU are the CAPTAIN now !!! “.
yes it can’t be a leonardo dicaprio movie because the ship didn’t sink
@d.j. koutsaris amen
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@Debarjun Dutta chutiye pilots were not indians
Watching this ship show has been like a new web series these days
Jeremy Dewitte Egyptian edition
Same here
Just keep watching the show!
It’s a monetary reset
😅
Went from “Ever Given” the goods to “Never Given” those goods! Or never given up!
Ever ground
never gonna give you up
“NEVER GIVEN” 😂😂😂😂 ya took it CLEAN outta my head….
The green no deal
Very true
0:36 that wall of microphones looks stronger than the French defenses in WW2
Speaking of French, wonder who built this canal
😂🤣🥳
Hahaha.
😂😂😂😂 oh snap
those are actually bouquets of condolence flowers hidden and disguised as microphones!
Someone getting fired for this, even if it was “just the wind”.
💯
It’s been rumoured it was the same wind that blew Joe Biden over 3 times on the steps of AirForce 1.
0:45
I think the real investigation everyone is curious about, is why are there so many damn microphones? It’s like something out of a cartoon 😅
ain’t it
😂😂
Simple answer?
The canal is no longer wide enough to handle todays modern shipping.
There needs to be two canals or a larger canal.
@DJ Digital sugma nuts
Oh there are two canals! Except at the gulf of suez end where this inconveniently happened! Coincidence or covert act of economic war?
You got a point their Mr. Horse
I think it already was upgraded by Sisi, with the intention of handling ships of this size. ask yourself why this doesn’t happen in the Panama canal?
just build roads beside the canal so the ships can be controlled and pulled by trucks..
“The ships have become bigger but the technology to support them hasn’t caught up ‘“ and also the crew keeps shrinking to keep the cost down.