I feel like this was part of the plan, given the name of the boat and the call sign. It feels like Evergreen was suppose to get stuck and hold up all transportation flow for the next two weeks while operations are being carried out. I just can’t imagine they couldn’t get that boat unstuck in one day if they really wanted too.
Thoughts?
It's early And i haven't had coffee... Was that a joke? The Ever Given is a 20,388 TEU ship. That's 10,194 big trailers. It displaces almost 220,000 tons.
I'm not sure what equipment they're expecting people to bring to deal with this!
I like the people saying 'blow it up' that don't seem to have any concept of the scale involved. Reminds me of this:
https://mcallen.org/news/the-day-the-oregon-highway-department-blew-up-a-whale/
And that was just a tiny whale. You could put more weight in a single container of the 10k+ onboard the ever given.
True. It’s does seem like a big job.
Those boxes go into the hold.
True, but they would have equipment there or accessible nearby, to attend to problems like this, whether caused by weather or error.
Ships like this pass daily, but yes, this is a special sort of screwup. Maybe it is too big for any normal plan, but we should still be seeing something constructive going on immediately.
Frankly I'm still hoping for raids.