Ship 'partially refloated,' but still stuck in Suez Canal

There are rumo(u)rs of rocks under the bulbous bow.

The crew were fooling around with the ship tracking system while waiting outside Suez, describing a common smutty picture. (Available using a search engine.) This might give some indication as to the consciousness and responsibility that they may, or may not have felt, before entering the canal.

Here is an example for those unable to find it. LOL.

https://happymag.tv/ship-stuck-in-suez-canal/

Back end of Ever Given unstuck.

The front end is still hard aground, however they managed to swing the back end around using 10 tug boats. Reports of it being unstuck are not entirely accurate. It is not fully unstuck, they only were able to swing it. There is a chance some smaller ships can get around it now however.

Had the canal been owned and controlled by European countries, such an embarrassing thing would not have happened. The canal should have been modernized and expanded and salvaged often to maintain the depth.

Had the canal been owned and controlled by European countries, such an embarrassing thing would not have happened. 

What an obnoxios thing to say. What, ships don't have accidents in Europe? Transport infrastructure never fails there?

Actually, it happens all the time there too.

The canal should have been modernized and expanded and salvaged often to maintain the depth.

This was a problem with the canal's width, not its depth. They could make the canal as deep as they wanted and it wouldn't stop a ship from getting stuck if it ran into the side of the canal as one can clearly see is what happened from every photo of the incident including the one at the top of this article.

Yeah europe is so prefect it never has any disaster at all ever, or shipping probems ever does it vanityofvanities, or do you just not read the news much...........................

Anyway this huge container ship was only headed to UK and europe loaded with cheap chinese produced knocked off copied crQp so we could call it poetic justice on both fronts couldnt we?,

Its still stuck though ...............

It's not stuck anymore. It's being towed along the canal now.

Interestingly the Chinese Whistle blower suggested that the Suez would be a target of the CCP to disrupt World trade back in 2018.

Had the canal been owned and controlled by European countries, such an embarrassing thing would not have happened. The canal should have been modernized and expanded and salvaged often to maintain the depth.

You ever seen how road work snarls traffic? That’s on a highway. can you imagine the traffic jams if the canal had to be widened and deepened every time someone builds a bigger ship? We already have ships too big to navigate the Panama Canal, but you don’t see them throwing up some traffic cones and expanding that, do you? Because if there is one thing this ever given nonsense proves, it’s that capitalism can’t handle even the slightest bit of hardship

Had the canal been owned and controlled by European countries, such an embarrassing thing would not have happened. The canal should have been modernized and expanded and salvaged often to maintain the depth.

The Suez Canal is very well maintained. So I am to assume European control of the canal would have somehow stopped the desert wind from blowing? What a load. The problem for many canals is that ships are growing in size faster than canal owners can keep up. Twenty years ago the average container ship was about 50,000 tons, sized to fit the locks in the Panama Canal. The Ever Given is 250,000. That is five times the mass of those 2000 era container cargo ships. For the Suez, the economics are daunting. It requires a lo lot of money to keep the current canal dredged. It is already quite costly for ships to transit the canal. If the price is raised too high it becomes economical to simply steam around the Cape of Good Hope and sail up the Atlantic to destinations in Europe. There are practical limits to how much the Suez Canal Authority can charge for a trip through the canal.

I would not like to have eves dropped on that conversation between the captin and his employers! I am sure there would have been more profanities than a Bernard manning club entertaiment evening.

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Interestingly the Chinese Whistle blower suggested that the Suez would be a target of the CCP to disrupt World trade back in 2018.

Who is your "Chinese Whistle blower", and why would the CCP be interested in disrupting world trade?