20,000 kg (44,000 lb) cargo Possibly, but at best you will have two of them rotating back and forth. They are so large they would run into each other otherwise. The ship's container capacity is 20,124 TEU. So 10k 40ft containers. Let's say 2 mi-26 rotating can move one container every 10 min = 100,000 minutes = 1,666.66 hours = 69.44 days = enough jet fuel I can't even calculate it. And that's operating 24 hours a day. If you are limited to 14 hours or so of usable daylight you're talking 4-5 months of work.
I'm really trying not to rein on you guys parade but what you're talking about is impractical. Sure if moving a few dozen containers by air is really needed it can be done, but a whole ship is just a massive task.
I will admit the one advantage is that all of this would take place at sea level so the helicopters are dealing with nice thick air and would have maximum lifting capability. See that 55k lbs at the bottom. That is for sure 95% of the containers but it would still take forever to unload 10k of them.
I commented about this a few days ago when she was good and stuck. I figured two at most flying from opposite ends could move half of the containers...maybe a few more,..in 5 or 6 months. Takes big equipment. Bigger than most deck mounted cranes can deal with.
True. If they spent just a few weeks and moved say 10-15% of the load that might have lightened the ship enough to get it unstuck. Not a totally insane plan. The Mi-10R would be capable of that, especially if it had a handful of other heavy lift helos to handle the lighter containers. I'm sure Russia would have loved to have bragging rights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_Mi-26#Specifications_(Mi-26)
20,000 kg (44,000 lb) cargo Possibly, but at best you will have two of them rotating back and forth. They are so large they would run into each other otherwise. The ship's container capacity is 20,124 TEU. So 10k 40ft containers. Let's say 2 mi-26 rotating can move one container every 10 min = 100,000 minutes = 1,666.66 hours = 69.44 days = enough jet fuel I can't even calculate it. And that's operating 24 hours a day. If you are limited to 14 hours or so of usable daylight you're talking 4-5 months of work.
I'm really trying not to rein on you guys parade but what you're talking about is impractical. Sure if moving a few dozen containers by air is really needed it can be done, but a whole ship is just a massive task.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ever_Given#Description
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit
I will admit the one advantage is that all of this would take place at sea level so the helicopters are dealing with nice thick air and would have maximum lifting capability. See that 55k lbs at the bottom. That is for sure 95% of the containers but it would still take forever to unload 10k of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_Mi-10#World_records
I commented about this a few days ago when she was good and stuck. I figured two at most flying from opposite ends could move half of the containers...maybe a few more,..in 5 or 6 months. Takes big equipment. Bigger than most deck mounted cranes can deal with.
True. If they spent just a few weeks and moved say 10-15% of the load that might have lightened the ship enough to get it unstuck. Not a totally insane plan. The Mi-10R would be capable of that, especially if it had a handful of other heavy lift helos to handle the lighter containers. I'm sure Russia would have loved to have bragging rights.