[HN Gopher] Suez Canal blocked briefly as container ship runs ag...
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Suez Canal blocked briefly as container ship runs aground
Author : lindenstark
Score : 80 points
Date : 2021-09-09 11:27 UTC (11 hours ago)
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| anshumankmr wrote:
| I am looking forward to the memes.
|
| On a more serious note, I hope it is resolved ASAP.
|
| EDIT: Looks like it has been resolved
| https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/egypt/2021/09/09/breaki...
| lindenstark wrote:
| that was fast, updated title.
| zarq wrote:
| Have the worldwide trade delays from the blockage with the Ever
| Given been resolved?
| gbear605 wrote:
| From my understanding, the direct delays are resolved (ships
| are moving normally through the canal) but there are global
| delays that could be indirectly caused by the Ever Given or
| lots of other issues (understaffing at ports, closed ports in
| China due to COVID, high shipping demand, etc.). It's hard to
| say whether the current delays would be a lot better if the
| Ever Given incident hadn't occurred, although they presumably
| would be at least somewhat better.
| asdff wrote:
| The delays are happening at every interface. The port of LA/LB
| is the busiest port in north America and has dozens and dozens
| of container ships anchored off the coast waiting to unload.
| Even if they unloaded the ships today they couldn't move the
| containers off the terminal holding facilities since freight
| rail and freight trucking is at capacity. This is why caltrans
| has been desperate to widen freeways leading to the port and
| link the 710 in Pasadena, and to expand the alameda freight
| rail corridor. Freeway widening doesn't help commute times any
| but it leads to more trucks per hour leaving the port due to
| the increased throughput, which is only going to get busier
| over the next century.
| karaterobot wrote:
| The delays caused by that specific blockage may have been
| resolved, but overall shipping delays continue to rise, as they
| were even before Ever Given. One big driver for that is ports
| being closed in China due to workers getting sick with Delta,
| but also just general lack of manpower related to the
| quarantine.
| IkmoIkmo wrote:
| Was this another close call major issue indicating a new pattern,
| or was this one of tens of minor incidents that typically
| happened in Suez and didn't get reported on until Ever Given?
|
| Not that the two are necessarily mutually exclusive but it's
| likely leaning hard towards one of the two.
| lindenstark wrote:
| Only around ~75 incidents reported this decade [0], so it's
| fairly uncommon. Definitely getting more attention now because
| of last time though.
|
| [0] (slightly outdated)
| https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-24/suez-bloc...
| kbutler wrote:
| 75/decade == 1 every 7 weeks
|
| Sounds pretty common, or as the grandparent said, "tens of
| minor incidents that...didn't get reported on"
| lindenstark wrote:
| when put into perspective that is pretty frequent, ~0.02%
| chance per ship.
| lavoiems wrote:
| Put differently, we had an average of 7.5 incidents per
| year in the last decade.
| lindenstark wrote:
| ya, I wonder what the risk is of getting stuck long term
| like earlier this year. According to the wikipedia page
| it looks like it has only happened a few times in
| history.
| gonational wrote:
| Given that MV Ever Given drew a penis and balls outside
| the canal[1] before entering, I suspect there is a chance
| the jam was not an accident.
|
| 1. https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_605c2e44c5b67ad3871
| c9afe
| beaudin wrote:
| I have a mentor who was prominent in the ship holding space and
| as with technology, requirements as well as desire for cost
| savings (bigger ships) is taking place while the infrastructure
| (canal) has had minimal change. It's the classic
| bottleneck/theory of constraints principle. Watching to see how
| the canal adapts/evolves.
| styluss wrote:
| Was blocked
| KoftaBob wrote:
| "They said it took 15 minutes for tug boats swiftly dispatched to
| the site to refloat the vessel and allow south-bound vessels
| stuck behind it to resume their journey.
|
| "It was a minor traffic issue that was resolved in less than an
| hour," a senior Suez Canal official told The National on
| condition of anonymity.
|
| Since the 'Ever Given' incident, the canal authority have
| announced a multi-billion dollar project to widen sections of the
| canal and install other infrastructure to ensure that no other
| large ships can run aground in the same manner again."
|
| Glad to see that it was resolved quickly, and that the canal is
| being upgraded to make it more resilient to things like that.
| keyboardCowBoy wrote:
| There's still more Biden money to go around.
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