Ever Given seized by Egypt because owners now owe $1 billion for accident.
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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And to all the people that said "it was the wind", how do you explain what is happening now? I realize there probably aren't any of those people here but just had to get the rhetorical question off my chest
Wind my arse, literally. My farts were more likely to have caused this.
The way the evergiven was positioned, it was deliberately rammed into the side of the canal. Its speed was several knots above the max limit for the suez, and it was basically beached which is why it took a week to free into the bitter lake.
Be advised as well, several people have been watching it closely this whole time on this page, and the results of wtf is going on in them are beyond strange. Ghosting transponders, the "mossad" tugs surrounding it, the fifth fleet and russia navy on each side of the suez while all this is going on.
This news story is claiming "sandstorm" for the grounding. I call b-o-l-o-g-n-a on that one. Sunny skies, light winds that day.
https://www.urdupoint.com/en/world/egypt-seizes-suez-megaship-demands-nearly-1222880.html
It sounds like the Japanese owners are balking at cooperation in the investigation a bit, even after the fines levied on EG went DOWN from $1B to $900M. Who taught these guys how to negotiate?
And US interests want $600M for their involvement in the salvage, in what the owners call an "unsupported claim".....that's hilarious - where have we heard that phrase before?
https://www.urdupoint.com/en/world/ever-given-insurer-calls-suez-canals-900mln-1223010.html
Aaaannnd a final point: It's just after midnight, Egypt local time as I type this, and Big EG and the Mystery Cargo ship (a/k/a Unidentified Floating Object) are all by themselves in the lake. Appear to be floating about 500 feet from each other for the past 4 hours or so.
I believe it's a Taiwanese shipping company, not Japanese.
Yes, it's a Taiwanese charterer (Evergreen Marine Corp.) but the Ever Given herself is owned by a Japanese business partnership (Shoei Kisen Kaisha Ltd.)