Mega container ship hard aground in Suez Canal | EVER GIVEN - FleetMon Maritime News

Perhaps it is time to reactivate The Yellow Fleet ?

The 200,000-tonne Ever Given has not been partially re-floated, authorities said after providing inaccurate information about the rescue operation earlier. [image] Investigation begins into how Ever Given was stranded Huge vessel was freed from canal bank on Monday …

Fake news is alive and well. That thing is stuck pretty good.

Any real force applied to the vessel will probably require some fabrication of suitable attachment points as I doubt the ship fittings apart from the windlass foundations would be sufficient. The other problem I see is the path of least resistance in freeing the vessel would be to move the ship in …

At the time, strong to gale force winds were occurring over the southeastern Med Sea and portions of the Suez Canal 0600Z and 0900Z. [image] [image]

Has this ever happened before? I remember going through the canal in the Gulf War and wondering how fast winds got over that desert, and whether it complicated things much.

They forgot the Johnny Walker Black

[image] SeaEagle: Reuters is reporting from the Agents that the ship is partially refloated. Has been moved to the side of the canal bank. “Ahmed Mekawy, an assistant manager at the port agent GAC’s Egypt office, retracted an earlier statement announcing that the vessel had been partially ref…

I saw where the statement was retracted.

Agreed, they should have coughed up the bonded stores when they had the chance. Now it’s “So sorry, my friend”

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