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It's a lot of containers.
by BrianOnHN 6y ago
It's a lot of containers.
- leesec 6y agoYou don't need to remove all of them? Just get it light enough to float it?
- BrianOnHN 6y agoHelicopters also have limited capacity. So it's not like you could pick up the heaviest first. Which brings back the issue of sheer quantity.
- PeterisP 6y agoRemoving 10% of containers by helicopter also would take unreasonable time, removing 1% of containers might be plausible but I don't think it would make enough of a difference to justify the risks.
- londons_explore 6y agoit's a quarter mile long. You can probably have 10 helicopters working at once while still keeping safe distances. Each helicopter has a crew of 4 on the boat and 4 on the shore. They hook 4 chains to the 4 corner hoists of each container. Say it takes 1 minutes per container to affix the chains, 1 minute to fly to the sand, 1 minute to unhitch, and 1 minute to fly back. Thats a lot slower than agricultural helicopters, but nobody will be very practiced with this yet, so it'll be slower. The entire ship could be unloaded with this method in 5.5 days. Perhaps less if not all the cargo needs unloading. The job could be half done by now...
- yongjik 6y agoYou're joking, right? It's a quarter mile, or 400m long. Ten helicopters in it means ~40m distance. That's less than safe distance between cars in a highway.
- totalZero 6y agoYou're assuming that the helicopters approach simultaneously instead of staggering themselves out.
- dghlsakjg 6y agoThe worlds highest capacity heavy lift chopper (M-26, of which there are 20 operational) has a max take off weight of 44k lbs. A standard 40 ft. container can be loaded to a gross weight of 66k lbs. It takes a purpose built crane a few minutes to unload a container, so I sort of doubt a helicopter could make it happen faster.
- zokier 6y agoMi-26 has record of 56 tons lifted: https://www.fai.org/record/2174 https://www.fai.org/record/2174 Although I suspect you don't want to repeat that trick too many times without serious inspection/maintenance.
- sudosysgen 6y agoThe Mi-26 is still in production, so you could replace them with brand new ones outright.
- orwin 6y agoWell, 56 tons in cold Russia is not AT ALL the same thing as 56 tons in Egypt. Maybe if you wait for winter?
- spookthesunset 6y agoA quarter of a mile long is a huge ship. Damn. Never really got that until now.
- kergonath 6y agoIt’s really tall as well. You can’t take any quickly assembled crane to unload that.
- mahathu 6y agoCoincidentally a quarter of a mile (400m) is also the length of those oval tracks around soccer fields in Europe. we used to run on them a lot in PE back in high school.
- umanwizard 6y agoSame in the US for the tracks surrounding football fields (and soccer fields too, for that matter).
- cm2012 6y agoAbout the height of the empire state building
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoOr, depending on how quick it really is, it could take months. Its easy to arm-chair speculate.
- cozzyd 6y agodocker-compose down ?