Don’t hate me I’m just trying to be real here. If we’re talking about 20k containers, what’s a fair amount of time to assume it would take to move each container by helicopter? 7 mins all in?
Let’s use 7 just for an example.
20,000 x 7 mins = 140,000 mins total or 2333 hours. Even if you had 12 Chinooks working round the clock, that would be like 200 hours of non stop work.
But the thing people are forgetting here is that the ship was refloated first. So it was likely moved to a part of the Suez Canal where they have Quay Cranes. Quay Cranes are built to offload those containers. If it was refloated and brought to a part of the Suez Canal where there were Quay Cranes ready and waiting they could off load it very fast. I don't know why everyone is assuming they did it by chopper.
It says right in the article the ship was FREED and then unloaded. I'd assume once they freed it they used the tugboats to pull it to port and used Quay Cranes to unload.
Don’t hate me I’m just trying to be real here. If we’re talking about 20k containers, what’s a fair amount of time to assume it would take to move each container by helicopter? 7 mins all in?
Let’s use 7 just for an example.
20,000 x 7 mins = 140,000 mins total or 2333 hours. Even if you had 12 Chinooks working round the clock, that would be like 200 hours of non stop work.
But the thing people are forgetting here is that the ship was refloated first. So it was likely moved to a part of the Suez Canal where they have Quay Cranes. Quay Cranes are built to offload those containers. If it was refloated and brought to a part of the Suez Canal where there were Quay Cranes ready and waiting they could off load it very fast. I don't know why everyone is assuming they did it by chopper.
It says right in the article the ship was FREED and then unloaded. I'd assume once they freed it they used the tugboats to pull it to port and used Quay Cranes to unload.