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Affecting worldwide shipping.
Stuck sideways since tuesday
Per Blurb on Fox just now
100,s of ships backed up on either side of the Canal.

The sand N I G G E R Egyptians say it might take 2 weeks to unfugg the thing.


Prices and availability of what the fugg ever is on all these ships and involved in what is made or sold from it all is gonna have a world wide dominoe effect.

Female driver?

Real opportunity for someone to make big money.

6 Mexicans. When they crashed they all jumped out and took off running.

Capt Hazlewood, anyone seen him lately?

They've brought in Mammoet.....which who else are you gonna call?

$1.2BB USD in trade revenue go through the Suez every hour, so an expensive wreck. There will probably be food riots.

Cargo ship draws giant penis in Red Sea then becomes wedged in Suez Canal

https://www.news.com.au/finance/eco...s-story/19d9322de92f703442b3aecccf8a7ffd

On Tuesday morning, the Ever Given sailed into the placid waters of the Suez Canal, the 120-mile-long link on its journey from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, as it carried thousands of tons of cargo bound for the Netherlands.

Then a dust storm hit, limiting visibility and battering ships with heavy winds, according to the Suez Canal Authority. By midmorning, the massive ship — one of the largest in the world at more than 1,300 feet long, more than twice the height of the Washington Monument — was wedged sideways across the canal.

Dozens of boats piled up into a marine traffic jam on the crucial shipping lane as tugboats and diggers tried to free the vessel. Oil prices rose Wednesday amid heightened worries over access to the canal, through which some 12 percent of global trade passes.

If they want, I'll see if Boudreaux and Thibodeaux can come get it unstuck. They know all about boats!!!

Chouest prolly has a couple they can send.

Perfect for more C19 associated bullschit and the world oil market to make bank....

Just scratching the surface......

Thankfully most european ammuntion components go thru various black sea/ Mediterranean/ Atlantic ports to the east coast.

Think primers and how many U.S. manufacturers source them from European companies.

ACCIDENT???

Does anyone really believe this was an accident.

Nope. I have transited the Suez more than a dozen times. If they expect heavy weather they don't even allow a vessel to begin the transit and send them to anchorage. Going through the canal is a highly regulated and controlled process. Ships are assigned a transit time and a transit position on each end of the canal and they all are required to have an Egyptian pilot onboard who takes control of the vessel. These pilots are highly trained and they know every inch of the canal. Northbound and southbound vessels leave at the exact same moment and they all meet in the lake in the middle where they pass and continue on. There is only one transit a day made and it will include well over 100 ships in each direction and Egypt charges at least $250,000 per vessel for the transit. The canal is a major money maker for Egypt and they are not going to be so careless as to allow a vessel to transit in heavy winds.

I do not buy the story they are pushing. I am a retired QMC and navigation was my profession for 25 years as a professional sailor in the USN.

Maybe it's full of 10,000 brown skinned people wearing Biden T-shirts.

I'll bet there's a Biden sticker on the stern.

Amarillo is an interesting choice for a retired Quartermaster.

Perfect timing for an Iranian strike and subsequent war started by a Democrat. Like all wars

Ammo prices will sky rocket !

This may interrupt the flow of goods made in the Far East .