Suez Blocked

[Doc Vernon]

Wonder how this happened, such a large Ship sideways in the Suez blocking all others from going anywhere!

Suez Canal blocked by huge container ship | Egypt | The Guardian

[Keith at Tregenna]

Shipping agent GAC reports that the grounding occurred at 7:40 a.m. local time on Tuesday (March 23) at kilometer 151 after the vessel suffered a black out while transiting.

It seems the Ever Given had just begun its transit of the waterway as part of a northbound convoy when the incident occurred.
“The 199,489 GT ship was fifth in the northbound convoy. None of the vessels before it were affected, but the 15 behind it were detained at anchorages waiting for the Canal to be cleared. The southbound convoy was also blocked,” GAC reported.

Source: Gcaptain

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Should be called Forever Given looks like they want to give it to Egypt.
Or the wheel man was like me passing Mt Etna once were I kept turning the wheel slightly to keep looking at it, the skipper came in and said you may as well go hard a starboard Jenkins we are nearly there anyway.
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

Deliberate or otherwise it will have an effect on oil prices, so many tankers go through there daily.
Mostly to Asia and estimated about 24 million barrels a day go through there.

[Doc Vernon]

Now i know where you were for a few days , sitting on the Bank of the Suez Conting the Barrels of oil going through! LOL

[Lewis McColl]

Deliberate or otherwise it will have an effect on oil prices, so many tankers go through there daily.
Mostly to Asia and estimated about 24 million barrels a day go through there.

John good job you were not a navigator at sea, why would the suez canal being blocked effect oil shipments to Asia?? I doubt very much if Asia buys a lot of oil from Libya.

[Tony Taylor]

Deliberate or otherwise it will have an effect on oil prices, so many tankers go through there daily.
Mostly to Asia and estimated about 24 million barrels a day go through there.

been on that Aussie wine again?

[Ivan Cloherty]

Looks like a skyhook job if she needs lightening, no sense in putting a craned feeder vessel alongside as crane would not reach top tier, same with barges and floating crane (if one nearby), could take off some bunkers, but doubt they are in for'd tanks and its the bulbous bow which is hard aground, not much of a tidal difference to help, so it looks like tug power and possibly bulldozers around the bow to try and remove some groundwork.

I don't think a 24/48 hour delay will make much difference to world's oil supply, as there are tankers sitting around full waiting for berths or market changes. Condom supply may suffer as all probably used by pilot and Master saying F**k-it

[Ralph Knowles]

Ref #7: Oil is regularly shipped from Scotland to China. A load, upwards of 200K tonnes, left Hound Point on the afternoon of 18th March. How do you think we in the UK, not for long, can trade for all the goods from the far east that are shipped west bound on these mega ships. Looking forward to my home country being able to capitalize on this trade without Westminster ripping us off in the future!

[Lewis McColl]

#10 What was the old saying when homeward bound. Was it 5 to the Rock 4 to the dock? so 9 days to the Suez canal. So take a few revs of her and slow steam for timed arrival.
https://gcaptain.com/tug-boats-suez-canal-ever-given/

Two senior Egyptian marine sources said some traffic would be diverted but it was unclear that this could free up congestion. So the canal is not totally blocked as they are using the original canal ??

That section of the canal is the new cut they built in 2015? so I wonder if vessels with a reduced draft can still transit?

They say it was a gust of wind that caused the grounding? Not having a lot of luck with these big container ships are they. Did something similar to this not happen to an MSC ship leaving the port of Durban last year, went side ways due to a gust of wind??

They struggle to get them into port /out of port along a canal and when they get to sea they have trouble keeping the containers onboard!!!!