"A similarly sized vessel, the CSCL Indian Ocean, ran hard aground on a sandbank in the River Elbe, Germany in February 2016. Freeing her will require a combination of excavating sand beneath her hull and significant tug power. "From the images available, taken locally and satellite images, she appears to be well embedded in the bank. It is, however, likely that it may not be one single factor rather a chain of events. "The exact cause of the vessel running hard aground will not be known until a formal investigation looks at what led to the casualty. Or to look at it another way the Suez Canal handles 12% of global trade each year. "To get an understanding of the impact of blocking the Suez Canal is, we need only look at some basic statistics - an average of just over 51 ships passed through the Canal every day in 2020. "It isn’t such an unusual thing for a ship to run aground on a sandbank, unfortunate, regrettable, a very bad day at work for the navigators perhaps, but when it happens in the one of the main arteries of world shipping it is a very newsworthy event. Nicola Pryce-Roberts, Senior Lecturer in Maritime Business and Law, looks at the salvage operation, the impact on trade and what needs to be done to support the industry. Hundreds of vessels are anchored up unable to continue their voyage as salvage work continues to re-float the large container ship and clear one of the main arteries of world shipping. imports.With Ever Given still blocking the Suez Canal, one of the world’s busiest waterways has come to a standstill. International trade expert Jeffrey Bergstrand predicted “only a minor and transitory effect” on prices of U.S. … Now these floating ships are the warehouse.” “We used to have big, fat warehouses in all the countries where the factories pulled supplies. John Konrad, the founder and CEO of the shipping news website. “We’ve gone to this fragile, just-in-time shipping that we saw absolutely break down in the beginning of COVID,” said Capt. The unprecedented shutdown, which raised fears of extended delays, goods shortages and rising costs for consumers, has prompted new questions about the shipping industry, an on-demand supplier for a world now under pressure from the coronavirus pandemic. Over 19,000 ships ferrying Chinese-made consumer goods and millions of barrels of oil and liquified natural gas flow through the artery from the Middle East and Asia to Europe and North America. The crisis cast a spotlight on the vital trade route that carries over 10% of global trade, including 7% of the world’s oil. If all goes well, the canal authority could open up the waterway to a northbound convoy by Tuesday morning, he told The Associated Press. Nicolas Sloane, vice president of the International Salvage Union who was involved in salvaging the Costa Concordia, the cruise ship that tipped over off Italy in 2012. Once the Ever Given is inspected in Great Bitter Lake, officials will decide whether the Panama-flagged, Japanese-owned ship hauling goods from Asia to Europe would continue to its original destination of Rotterdam, or if it would need to enter another port for repairs.Ĭanal officials also will do a detailed inspection of the area where the Ever Given was grounded, especially the bank “to see how much of that rock has been displaced and might have impacted the deep water of the canal,” said Capt. The dredger is named for Mashhour Ahmed Mashhour, assigned to run the canal with others when it was nationalized in 1956 by President Gamal Abdel-Nasser. 1,” referring to the dredger that worked around the vessel. Jubilant workers on a tugboat sailing with the Ever Given chanted, “Mashhour, No. ![]() That created a massive traffic jam that held up $9 billion a day in global trade and strained supply chains already burdened by the coronavirus pandemic. The Ever Given sailed to the Great Bitter Lake, a wide stretch of water halfway between the north and south ends of the canal, for inspection, said Evergreen Marine Corp., a Taiwan-based shipping company that operates the ship.īuffeted by a sandstorm, the Ever Given had crashed into a bank of a single-lane stretch of the canal about 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) north of the southern entrance, near the city of Suez. From the city of Suez, ships stacked with containers could be seen exiting the canal into the Red Sea.Īt least 113 of over 420 vessels that had waited for Ever Given to be freed are expected to cross the canal by Tuesday morning, Rabei added at a news conference. Osama Rabei, the head of the Suez Canal Authority, adding that the first ships that were moving carried livestock. Navigation in the canal resumed at 6 p.m.
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