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Thread #169590   Message #4099513
Posted By: robomatic
27-Mar-21 - 09:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: A man, a plan, a canal, panic
Subject: RE: BS: A man, a plan, a canal, panic
Clever thread title!

Fascinating problem. There was a helpful youtube released coincidentally with the recent problem but not specifically addressing it. It describes container ships as compared by how many thousands of TEUs (Twenty foot Equivalent Unit)can be carried. The youtube video is concerned with the expense and ecological impacts of the immense amount of dredging
involved in making ports that can receive the larger container carriers. The video is concerned with the 'mega' carriers that can handle up to 15,000 TEUs.

The TEU wedged into the Suez canal is 20,000 size. It is possibly the world's largest at this time. Larger ones are in the offing.

Another youtube addresses the specific situation of MV Ever Given as of yesterday (20210326). As I type this I don't think the situation has changed.