An additional attempt may be made on Sunday to refloat sending 400-meter-long containers that block the Suez Canal.
The tugboats controlled to move Ever Given about 29 meters on Saturday and the dredgers released their propellers from the mud of the canal. The head of the Suez Canal Authority refused to set a timetable to refloat the shipment and said the task remained “difficult. “
Stacking ships creates a challenge for global chains of origin that have already been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Companies like A. P. Moller-Maersk and Mediterranean Shipping Co. redirected the ships to southern Africa. About 12% of the global industry passes through the channel through which such strategic global powers have fought.
Strengths:
The authority of the dredging channel at 18 meters.
The Suez Canal Authority said in a statement that to date, 27,000 cubic meters of sand had been moved around the shipment at an intensity of 18 meters.
More than 350 boats on standby
According to Inchcape Shipping Services, a maritime service provider, 23 ships will arrive in transit through the Suez Canal in the next 24 hours. There are 352 shipping boats, on the move or on the desk, in the waiting spaces of Port Said Anchorage, Great Bitter Lake. and South Suez Anchorage, the company said.
Syrian oil is delayed
Syria’s Oil Ministry said the stranded sent the arrival of a fuel tanker late to the country. The government rations supplies. ” Waiting for the return of the general navigation movement across the Suez Canal would possibly take an unknown time. “he said.
HMM to divert 3 ships from Africa
HMM Co. will divert 3 container carriers around the Cape of Good Hope this week due to the blockade of the Suez Canal, a spokesman for South Korea’s largest shipping company said Sunday.
Two of the ships, with 24,000 20-foot containers, are heading to Europe and the third to Asia.
Boat slightly moved; Refloat interrupted operations
Tugboats running to refloat the controlled Ever Given to move the damaged container sent 29 meters (32 yards) on Saturday, and the dredgers were before releasing the propellers from the sediment that has stuck the boat to the shore of the Suez Canal since Tuesday.
Dredging paints will continue until four o’clock in the afternoon. On Sunday, local time, when refloating operations will resume, Inchcape Shipping Services said. Two more tugboats are expected to arrive, in addition to the 11 that have been on site lately, according to Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, technical director of the ship.
Ever Given’s charterer stated that it would take at least two days of dredging before enough dust and sand cleared to float again at high tide, while the rescue team said he would start lifting the ship’s boxes to lighten his cargo.
The ship’s propeller is free, no tugs en route.
Eleven tugboats worked throughout Saturday throughout the sight dredging operations that removed sand and dust from the port side of the bow, according to Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, ship’s technical director. Two more tugboats are expected to arrive on Sunday.
The helm of the boat was detached from the sediment.
Initial investigations point to mechanical or engine failure as the cause of grounding, according to the release.
CMA CGM hijacks two ships
The French shipping company CMA CGM Group kidnapped two ships, Leo and Attila, around the Cape of Good Hope, according to the company’s website.
Leo is in the direction of Charleston, South Carolina, to Port Klang, Malaysia. Attila travels in the direction of Kingston, Jamaica, to Singapore, to the shipping details.
The company has 10 boats trapped in or near the canal, plus nine other ships from your spouse.
Pumping water into the sand can work
Ever Given can be launched simply by pumping water into the sand under the ship, Professor Emeritus of Technical Design at the University of Edinburgh told The Scotsman newspaper.
“I’d give you a 50/50 to make it work,” Professor Stephen Salter said.
He never gave slight movements, reports of Egypt
The submission moved 30 meters north, to a tweet from Egypt Today magazine, adding that this suggests that the refloating procedure will work.
The boat line is lengthened
The number of boats waiting to enter the Suez Canal is expanding while the waterway remains blocked. Data collected through Bloomberg shows that there are 429 ships waiting on Saturday, up from about a hundred at the start of the blockade.
Bulk carriers carrying goods such as grains, coal and iron ore account for the highest percentage of vessels trapped in and around the canal. Knowledge also involves up to 14 vessels that can bring thousands of livestock.
The channel boss sounds a positive note
The most recent efforts to lose shipment have begun to bear fruit and further attempts to reflote it may begin on Saturday or Sunday, suez Canal Authority Chief Osama Rabie told reporters.
Refusing to set a schedule for the final touch of the operation, Rabie claimed there are 10 tugs on site. Lately there are more than 320 boats waiting and the government is running to provide them with all the mandatory services.
The channel is impacting $14 million a day due to the blockade, Rabie said.
Digging can take days
Excavation will require at least two to 3 days of excavation to succeed in the intensity required for the stranded vessel to float again, said the Evergreen Line charterer on March 26.
Maersk hijacks 14 container carriers in southern Africa
Logistics company AP Moller-Maersk A/S deviateed 14 ships around the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, to avoid the Suez Canal. The number of diverted ships increased by 12 and the company said it expects that number to increase.
“Every day the canal remains blocked, the effects dominated on capacity and the devices continue to increase,” Maersk said in a statement.
Dredging is in a position to resume
Tugboats connect to resume fleeting operations to Inchcape’s shipping service. Dredgers are running lately and there are divers around Ever Given shipping.
Comments through Egyptian Prime Minister
In the first public commentary through an Egyptian government official about the incident, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said the country opposed time to repair the movement to the facility to save the world and sought to complete the paintings as soon as possible.
Stranded ships
Several boats loaded with farm animals and boxes in the direction of Jordan are stranded near the Suez Canal, captain George Dahdal, representative of the Jordan Navigation Union, said by phone. in Aqaba on March 21 they are stranded. Other ships loaded with boxes that add food and other products are still blocked due to bottling, Dahdal said.
Qatar Airways receives air shipment requests
Qatar Airways, one of the world’s largest cargo airlines, said channel-stuck chargers were sending requests as a precaution. The airline hopes to “see a more powerful interest in the coming days if it stays the same,” said a corporate spokesman in reaction to Bloomberg’s questions.
The timing couldn’t be worse, Moody’s says
Channel transitority closure can be only 10% to 15% of overall container performance, Moody’s Investors Service estimated earlier this week. Generally speaking, transitority delays in global source chains would not be a “big problem,” he said. , global shortages of container capacity and poor facility reliability have made chain of origin highly vulnerable to external impacts despite strong customer demand, their analysts said.
“The timing of this occasion may have been worse,” analysts wrote, adding Daniel Harlid, in a March 25 report.
Insurers can get hooked by millions
Potentially, thousands of insurance policies were taken in the metal boxes stacked at Ever Given and can result in millions of dollar payments.
The blockade is about to lead to an avalanche of court cases for all those affected, from those in the shipping sector to those in the raw fabric sector. Read the story here.
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