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Evergreen Lines vessel "EVER GIVEN" has been stuck sideways in the Suez Canal for the past day, reportedly grounded on the side of the canal. It looks like nothing can get past. Every tug between Port Said and Suez is out there pushing on it from both sides, to no avail. Apparently it's being refloated now or something? Anyway, there's a giant traffic jam on both sides of the Canal now.
The earliest report of it at that position was 1800 UTC, but it might have been stuck for longer. I don't know if 4h is enough for that much traffic to build up at the entries to the Canal. ED: looks like it was since 0600 UTC on March 23, not 1800:
http://www.maritimebulletin.net/2021/03/23/mega-container-ship-hard-aground-in-suez-canal/ (archive)
For the zoomies among us, the Suez is how shipping traffic moves between Europe and Asia without having to take a longass detour around Africa. The last time it was closed was the Six Day War.
The ship, and a video below of the jam behind it:
An overview of the situation:
https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1374438210315513864 (archive)
EVER GIVEN on vesselfinder:
You can see pretty clearly in picrel that the bow's hiked up on the sand. That line where the blue paint meets red paint should normally be horizontal.
Each of those dots is a stationary ship, in (L/R) the middle, at the south (Red Sea) approach, and the north (Med) approach.
Hopefully all those moving tracks still approaching the canal, mean that the industry knows something we don't, and think that the Canal will be cleared soon.
The earliest report of it at that position was 1800 UTC, but it might have been stuck for longer. I don't know if 4h is enough for that much traffic to build up at the entries to the Canal. ED: looks like it was since 0600 UTC on March 23, not 1800:
http://www.maritimebulletin.net/2021/03/23/mega-container-ship-hard-aground-in-suez-canal/ (archive)
For the zoomies among us, the Suez is how shipping traffic moves between Europe and Asia without having to take a longass detour around Africa. The last time it was closed was the Six Day War.
The ship, and a video below of the jam behind it:
An overview of the situation:
https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1374438210315513864 (archive)
EVER GIVEN on vesselfinder:
You can see pretty clearly in picrel that the bow's hiked up on the sand. That line where the blue paint meets red paint should normally be horizontal.
Each of those dots is a stationary ship, in (L/R) the middle, at the south (Red Sea) approach, and the north (Med) approach.
Hopefully all those moving tracks still approaching the canal, mean that the industry knows something we don't, and think that the Canal will be cleared soon.
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