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Evergreen Marine? Isn't this the same company that ran aground in the suez canal? What gives? How would they not prevent this from happening so close to that la
by cphoover 5y ago
Evergreen Marine? Isn't this the same company that ran aground in the suez canal? What gives? How would they not prevent this from happening so close to that last huge nightmare, and bottleneck in global shipping?
- labster 5y agoThe very same, and this one is a few thousand miles away from the other nightmare, and is not blocking anyone else.
- cphoover 5y agoYea it's just sitting in the shallows of the Chesapeake near where I live likely destroying the ecosystem
- joe_the_user 5y agoYeah, same company and same class of ships. The ship that got stuck in the Suez had gotten stuck other places previous and might have gotten stuck afterwards too faik. Huge ships played a part in the bottlenecking of LA/Long Beach also. In the last time years, all of the largest shipping companies have built ships that are essentially way too big, just to save some marginal amount. A big part of this is that these shipping lines mostly don't have to pay the downside of this absurdity.
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- Uehreka 5y agoKnowing absolutely nothing about this industry, I wonder if it’s just a matter of there being only a few big players, such that any accident would always be one of a couple companies.
- tedunangst 5y agoHow much control do you think they had over these incidents?
- lozenge 5y agoWell, they control their hiring, training, and oversight of operations to ensure procedures are followed. Not to speak to the specifics of the incidents, but "the company is irrelevant because they are distant from the ship" wouldn't wash.
- Brian_K_White 5y agoSo you suggest that Jeebus struck them twice, and no one else once? Ok. Even if there are no other else's that have ships that big, they controlled that they built ships that big at the very least.
- Macha 5y agoAlternatively, because the Suez canal incident was so widespread news, you're now hearing about incidents with this company that otherwise would have stayed as footnotes in specialty media
- frankharv 5y agoTo be fair this is a major fuckup.. Not a minor grounding. A ship that draws 40 foot of water is in 25 foot of water. Get it?
- ithkuil 5y agoWhat's the easiest way to get a list of all current big cargo ships stuck somewhere in the world? I assume most of them don't hit headlines.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoThey're getting the Boeing treatment. Their name now has mind share among the people with high class, high dollar eyeballs that everyone wants their ads in front of. So every time they do anything even marginally newsworthy it will be written about because the subject has a great clicks to effort ratio for the people who produce content in order to sell ad time.
- dudeinjapan 5y ago