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Also, this doesn't help things: "Suez Canal Blocked After Giant Container Ship Gets Stuck" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/world/middleeast/suez-canal-block
by luthfur 6y ago
Also, this doesn't help things: "Suez Canal Blocked After Giant Container Ship Gets Stuck"
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/world/middleeast/suez-canal-blocked-ship.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/world/middleeast/suez-can...
100 ships stuck behind it.
When it rains, it shit pours...
- Izkata 6y agoSee also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26560319 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26560319 where this was posted earlier today. Someone there posted https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9811000 https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9811000 for real-time status, which seems to show the ship is still stuck.
- frabjoused 6y agoOr, when something hits the media curve, people become more aware of other things like it (which were happening all along).
- luthfur 6y agoAh yes, entirely true. I wouldn't have come across this news if I didn't go down this container rabbit-hole.
- refurb 6y agoNot only that, but when news is slow things get reported on that happen all the time but never get talked about normally.
- caf 6y agoI don't think that's the case here, though - it has been reported that this may well be the first time it has happened in the canal's 150 year history.
- alexchamberlain 6y agoIn what way? I think ships get stuck for a day or so every couple of years. Maybe the first time it’s been this long?
- refurb 6y agoThere were blockages in 2016 and 2018. This bad? Who knows at this point. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-24/suez-blockage-is-a-signal-of-what-s-ahead-as-ships-get-bigger https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-24/suez-bloc...