keitha
Member of DD Central
2024, hopefully the year I get out of P2P
Posts: 3,889
Likes: 2,321
|
Post by keitha on Mar 26, 2021 10:24:24 GMT
It turns out that she's also something of a graffiti artist . what ?
|
|
registerme
Member of DD Central
Posts: 6,233
Likes: 6,038
|
Post by registerme on Mar 26, 2021 10:35:20 GMT
It turns out that she's also something of a graffiti artist . what ? This will probably get modded but hey ho.
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2021 11:24:59 GMT
About 15 years ago I booked passage on a container vessel for about 5 days. The crew's life, which we sort of shared, was one of a terrible round of multiple meals throughout the 24 hour cycle and the desperate searching by the crew for telephone/tv/internet signal so they could find porn channels. While the crew did look out of the window on occasions and obviously they did carry out watches even then the whole thing was pretty well automated.
|
|
adrianc
Member of DD Central
Posts: 9,045
Likes: 4,841
|
Post by adrianc on Mar 26, 2021 12:12:30 GMT
Keep digging, lads... The cargo that uses the canal is apparently about $10bn-worth per day. www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-5653325012-14 additional days to go via the Cape. Bet the operators of the China-Europe rail lines are chuckling to themselves as they try to schedule extra trains.
|
|
agent69
Member of DD Central
Posts: 5,641
Likes: 4,213
|
Post by agent69 on Mar 26, 2021 12:38:30 GMT
Keep digging, lads...The cargo that uses the canal is apparently about $10bn-worth per day. www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-5653325012-14 additional days to go via the Cape. Bet the operators of the China-Europe rail lines are chuckling to themselves as they try to schedule extra trains. Based on my time working in Egypt, I'm suprised they don't have about 50 ten year old boys doing the digging.
I'm not certain what they are trying to achieve given that the ship has a draught of about 15m, so the excavator don't look anywhere big enough. Besides, you would think they need to dig out the soil on the canal side of the boat to free it.
|
|
|
Post by mfaxford on Mar 26, 2021 12:59:56 GMT
I'm not certain what they are trying to achieve given that the ship has a draught of about 15m, so the excavator don't look anywhere big enough. Besides, you would think they need to dig out the soil on the canal side of the boat to free it.
Based on what was said on the radio this morning it might be a case of doing what they can with what's already there until bigger/better things turn up. He was talking about it potentially needing to have containers unloaded, but that's likely to take a couple of weeks to get suitable stuff in place. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw bigger diggers turn up in the next few days. There's not a lot to lose by starting on various solutions but potentially a lot to gain if they can free it up quickly.
|
|
michaelc
Member of DD Central
Posts: 4,920
Likes: 2,774
|
Post by michaelc on Mar 26, 2021 14:42:00 GMT
To me that excavator looks a reasonable size. 50 tons ? That would put it bigger than most used for general purpose - demolition being a common use. Its certainly way, way bigger than a mini digger which is just a couple of tons or slightly more.
There are crazy outsized ones in the many hundreds of tons but not sure how you would get them there?
Perhaps they just need a couple of dozen like the one they already have.
|
|
adrianc
Member of DD Central
Posts: 9,045
Likes: 4,841
|
Post by adrianc on Mar 26, 2021 14:57:59 GMT
To me that excavator looks a reasonable size. 50 tons ? That would put it bigger than most used for general purpose - demolition being a common use. Its certainly way, way bigger than a mini digger which is just a couple of tons or slightly more. It's certainly fairly large... but going by the cab, not a monster. www.cat.com/en_GB/products/new/equipment/excavators/large-excavators.htmlCompare it to the dump truck in the original pic of the bow stuck - with people alongside. It's difficult to get scale for that boat. Probably easiest to put it on a boat...
|
|
keitha
Member of DD Central
2024, hopefully the year I get out of P2P
Posts: 3,889
Likes: 2,321
|
Post by keitha on Mar 26, 2021 15:01:43 GMT
There is a huge dredger on the way that can shift a lots of sand but they are saying 15-20000 cubic metres of sand needs to be shifted. The dredger should be able to shift that amount in 10 hours.
and also Arrangements are also being made for high-capacity pumps to reduce the water levels in the forward void space of the vessel and the bow thruster room.
more tugs on the way but may be 2 more days
|
|
|
Post by Duane Dibley on Mar 26, 2021 17:03:59 GMT
Sounds interesting. Is that from personal experience?
|
|
Nomad
Member of DD Central
Posts: 729
Likes: 497
|
Post by Nomad on Mar 26, 2021 17:22:54 GMT
Sounds interesting. Is that from personal experience? Yes, a few years ago now. Charleston SC to Auckland, Piraeus to Singapore, Brazil to Spain, etc!
|
|
registerme
Member of DD Central
Posts: 6,233
Likes: 6,038
|
Post by registerme on Mar 26, 2021 17:50:08 GMT
Sounds interesting. Is that from personal experience? Yes, a few years ago now. Charleston SC to Auckland, Piraeus to Singapore, Brazil to Spain, etc! You are well named sir!
|
|
|
Post by bracknellboy on Mar 26, 2021 18:33:43 GMT
In more news, the latest BBC article gave the name of the ship as Ever Given ( www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-56538653). Leading me to decide to quip that it would no doubt be renamed to the nEver forGiven. Only to realise that someone at the BBC is clearly incapable of reading letters written in 40 Foot font.
|
|
registerme
Member of DD Central
Posts: 6,233
Likes: 6,038
|
Post by registerme on Mar 26, 2021 19:34:01 GMT
In more news, the latest BBC article gave the name of the ship as Ever Given ( www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-56538653). Leading me to decide to quip that it would no doubt be renamed to the nEver forGiven. Only to realise that someone at the BBC is clearly incapable of reading letters written in 40 Foot font. Evergreen is the shipping line. Ever Given is the name of this particular ship.
|
|
travolta
Member of DD Central
Posts: 1,461
Likes: 1,173
Member is Online
|
Post by travolta on Mar 26, 2021 20:19:21 GMT
High pressure underwater treatment , used in rig construction. Call in the Norwegians. The wily Arabs have them over a barrel of ignorance.
|
|