28-03-2021, 08:33
^It’s not Chinese owned – from Wiki - Ever Given is a Golden-class container ship, one of the largest container ships in the world. The ship is owned by Shoei Kisen Kaisha (a shipowning and leasing subsidiary of the large Japanese shipbuilding company Imabari Shipbuilding), and time chartered and operated by Taiwanese container transportation and shipping company Evergreen Marine. Ever Given is registered in Panama, and its technical management is the responsibility of the German ship management company Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ever_Given
I think it’s quite close to the bone in terms of its specs and those of the ‘ditch in the desert’ as some call it! Maybe the canal has silted up at the sides over time and is narrowing? Are those things monitored? Presumably given all the sandstorms - I don’t know – just speculating …. The ship shouldn’t have drifted in any event but there really isn’t a lot of margin for error looking at this info. Maybe they need to try pulling it from both ends from opposite sides of the bank?? There's an awful lot of head scratching going on!
Canal capacity – also Wiki … The canal allows passage of ships up to 20 m (66 ft) draft or 240,000 deadweight tons and up to a height of 68 m (223 ft) above water level and a maximum beam of 77.5 m (254 ft) under certain conditions.[119][115] The canal can handle more traffic and larger ships than the Panama Canal, as Suezmax dimensions are greater than both Panamax and New Panamax. Some supertankers are too large to traverse the canal. Others can offload part of their cargo onto a canal-owned ship to reduce their draft, transit, and reload at the other end of the canal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal#Capacity
Ever Given specs – Wiki again
Tonnage:
·220,940 GT
·99,155 NT
·199,629 DWT[3]
Length:
399.94 m (1,312 ft 2 in)[3]
Beam:
58.8 m (192 ft 11 in)[3]
Draught:
14.5 m (47 ft 7 in)[3]
Installed power:
Mitsui–MAN B&W 11G95ME-C9 (59,300 kW)[4]
Propulsion:
·Single shaft; fixed pitch propeller
·Two bow thrusters[4]
Speed:
22.8 knots (42.2 km/h; 26.2 mph)
Capacity:
20,124 TEU[5]
Crew:
25
I think it’s quite close to the bone in terms of its specs and those of the ‘ditch in the desert’ as some call it! Maybe the canal has silted up at the sides over time and is narrowing? Are those things monitored? Presumably given all the sandstorms - I don’t know – just speculating …. The ship shouldn’t have drifted in any event but there really isn’t a lot of margin for error looking at this info. Maybe they need to try pulling it from both ends from opposite sides of the bank?? There's an awful lot of head scratching going on!
Canal capacity – also Wiki … The canal allows passage of ships up to 20 m (66 ft) draft or 240,000 deadweight tons and up to a height of 68 m (223 ft) above water level and a maximum beam of 77.5 m (254 ft) under certain conditions.[119][115] The canal can handle more traffic and larger ships than the Panama Canal, as Suezmax dimensions are greater than both Panamax and New Panamax. Some supertankers are too large to traverse the canal. Others can offload part of their cargo onto a canal-owned ship to reduce their draft, transit, and reload at the other end of the canal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal#Capacity
Ever Given specs – Wiki again
Tonnage:
·220,940 GT
·99,155 NT
·199,629 DWT[3]
Length:
399.94 m (1,312 ft 2 in)[3]
Beam:
58.8 m (192 ft 11 in)[3]
Draught:
14.5 m (47 ft 7 in)[3]
Installed power:
Mitsui–MAN B&W 11G95ME-C9 (59,300 kW)[4]
Propulsion:
·Single shaft; fixed pitch propeller
·Two bow thrusters[4]
Speed:
22.8 knots (42.2 km/h; 26.2 mph)
Capacity:
20,124 TEU[5]
Crew:
25
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