Two additional tugboats sped Sunday to Egypt’s Suez Canal to aid efforts to free a skyscraper-sized container ship wedged for days across the crucial waterway, even as major shippers increasingly divert their boats out of fear the vessel may take even longer to free.
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42 Comments
The Egyptians are gonna lay full blame on the ship's crew. No way can they admit that there is anything wrong with, or risk to navigating the canal.
Easy fix …..WIDEN the damn canal OR ……. Ban these Mega ships
The Suez Canal was closed from 1967 to 1975. The world got along just fine.
Damn that is a lot of microphones 🎤
speeding 2 weeks late
they should helicopter lift some of those containers so it is less heavy
The wise owl would have had tugboats ready ahead of time, just in case something like this happened.
Research the track this vessel made inside the Red Sea before it went in the Suez Canal something ain't right here check it out to ship drew a giant f u !
Just spit balling here but what if they ran dymamite under the ground it is lodged into obviously away from the hull just enough to soften up the ground
Someone on the bridge had their hand down their pants instead of paying attention. What if they were texting and driving?
Don't know about the rest of you but i see room for at least 2 or three more microphones in that nest.
should have dug a channel next to the bow
Tugboats speeding – if that's not a contradiction in terms I don't know what is! 👍
So that ship is literally touching 2 continents at once?
They should be a rule for containers mega ship should all the time in suez canal be tended with a tug at the stem n one at the stern while passing through the canal .
lol Tugboats 'speeding'.
Wake the size of Texas, those widdle tugs sped to their task at hand.
Bet the pilot of the ship was a good union member
Me: Just let me hit baby, I ain’t gon tell nobody…
Also me: @0:29
Open the containers!
As these ships get bigger groundings will become regular events.
Hire Pakistani ship breakers and they'll reduce that stranded monster to a smudge in the sand in twenty days. Plus, they will finally make a decent wage.
Try jiggling the handle
You would think if it is so important to move this boat they would be unloading at the same time as they are digging underneath it.
Do a story on the ports the backlogged ships were supposed to dock at. These ports run 24/7 as it is and other ships keep on coming as well.
send in a Tug Ship.
Either its a planned mistake or incompetence of the crew . Ships are passing through this canal from hundred of yrs . Its a canal not ocean where storm can move such a giant ship. If there were storm then why no other ship was effected. Other thing the crew of this ship were from india. Who are famous in scamming and always exaggerate on their abilities other than reality.
right, my lady, they should lift the other ships over it
I need my Chinese goods now
If he is in charge what are the others like
🦸🏽♂️SHAZAM !
Telling the world that 30MPH wind moved 220,000 tons cargo ship that is 2x size of US super carrier is lie by Japanese. Can mouse move an elephant? LOL Why is it always ships made by China and Japan always cause trouble every year. Now stopping the world trades.
Why not try moving the ship backwards?
"Tugboats" and "speeding" are not usually found in the same sentence.
Should of unloaded the ship with helicopters from day 1 and pumped out the ballast tanks, whilst dredging.
Would of had it floating by now.
Ask why the government is unable to clear the Suez Canal of blockage with all there is to help clear it out…
Oh boy!!! Red Sea, oil blowing up, flooding, tornadoes, earthquakes, volcano's….. did I miss anything? What does all this tell you?
this is god's way of punishing europe for falsely accusing china and imposing sanction on china LOL you have no chinese goods, are you happy now?
Tugboats and speeding just don't go in the same sentence.
Mmmm….remind me …how much Chinese commerce moves through the canal? …and who owns this ship?…
How fazt are teh tubgoats speeting?
Only the German can help
RECONNAISSANCE DU SOMALILAND