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Good picture from that Reuters article. Look at all those containers
DON’T let them eat cake.
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@jon-nyc Ther's got to be what? 1800 on there? 2000? Those things weigh 4 tons empty...The ship itself is 200,000 tons. The max payload for most of those containers is 30 tons. Guess an average payload of 16 tons for shits and giggles... You're getting up close to 250,000 tons and that's a conservative guess.
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I wonder how much that Captain makes a year and whether he feels it is worth it right now?
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@lufins-dad said in Stuck:
I wonder how much that Captain makes a year and whether he feels it is worth it right now?
Look on the bright side, he's got a great story for his grandchildren.
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It’s one of the largest container ships in the world.
Its max capacity is 20,000 containers.
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It’s one of the largest container ships in the world.
Its max capacity is 20,000 containers.
20,000 8’ by 40’? That’s what I based my guess on.
In that picture, l’m counting 9-10 rows high, 24 long, and 10 deep (give or take). I was figuring those to be the typical 8’ x 40’ giving a max of 2400. Obviously I am missing something...
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@lufins-dad said in Stuck:
It’s one of the largest container ships in the world.
Its max capacity is 20,000 containers.
20,000 8’ by 40’? That’s what I based my guess on.
In that picture, l’m counting 9-10 rows high, 24 long, and 10 deep (give or take). I was figuring those to be the typical 8’ x 40’ giving a max of 2400. Obviously I am missing something...
Is this one at max capacity?
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@doctor-phibes said in Stuck:
Look on the bright side, he's got a great story for his grandchildren.
Once upon a time, the winds of fate blew me ship off and put it squarely on the “pause” button of global commerce ...
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Got me wonder how the Thunderbirds team would deal with something like this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbirds_(TV_series)
Maybe they won’t at all, since no human life is at stake.
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I looked it up and it’s 20k TEU which is twenty foot equivalent units.
So it would hold 10k of the 40 ft units
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The truck commercials practically write themselves.
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Part of the problem is that the captains are always under the gun of a tight schedule.
My in-laws neighbor captains a container ship on the Houston-Antwerp-Houston run. A couple of years ago, he chose to throttle down and let a bad Atlantic storm go through, rather than risk his vessel and cargo.
I don't know how much it cost the company, but he had to undergo a company review board over his actions and his command was on the line.
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Moments before it ran aground, the Ever Given was apparently travelling faster than a speed limit set by the Suez Canal Authority, Bloomberg reported.
The Ever Given's last recorded speed was 13.5 knots, logged 12 minutes before it grounded, according to Bloomberg, which cited its own data. The maximum allowed speed through the canal was between 7.6 knots and 8.6 knots, the report said.
The Japan Times also reported the ship was travelling 13.5 knots, adding that two canal pilots were onboard when the ship hit land.
The Ever Given didn't have a tugboat escort through the canal, according to Bloomberg. The two ships immediately ahead of it reportedly had escorts, although such escorts were not required.
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Could they have been trying to beat the storm?
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Please love yourself.
