[skydriller]

They're gonna need a bigger canal.

In all seriousness, could this be part of the problem?
I mean, when the canal was built (victorian times), the ships using it would not be in the same league as those we see today - in the same vein as airports built in the 60s having to cope with 747s/A380s.

Regards, SD..

[PeteSpencer]

Stern freed this morning but by 1pm BBC News stern blown back aground by 'strong winds'

[Nero]

They only expanded it in 2015 but things just keep getting bigger. When will it be enough?

~ Scott

[Morten]

I've heard vessels being referred to as Panamax - being the biggest able to fit through the Panama canal. Is there such a thing as a Sumax?

Aha!: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panamax#/ ... arison.svg

[Nero]

Aha!: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panamax#/ ... arison.svg

That says unlimited length! Think that's where they're going wrong

[-DV8R-]

Very biblical way to get rid of the containers.... very timely too, for Passover.

Safe sailings and landings! DV8R

[malcolmfrost]

She's almost out of the way now!

[Rob L]

Very biblical way to get rid of the containers.... very timely too, for Passover.

Safe sailings and landings! DV8R

If politics is banned on these forums, so should religion. (I'm a gentile with all my body parts intact).

[Charles Hunt]

[PeteSpencer]

Genuine question for our sea-faring forumites;
Are those individual tall stacks of containers interlinked in some way at intervals up to the top with the next stack or are they completely free standing justrelying on the inter- locking pegs or whatever they are called at the corner of each container?

[rikur_]

if we're doing genuine questions....
I assume there's some sort of equivalent of ATC to sequence the ships through the canal? Watching online, it almost looks like they're being vectored in in sequence from the med'.

[townleyc]

They're gonna need a bigger canal.

In all seriousness, could this be part of the problem?
I mean, when the canal was built (victorian times), the ships using it would not be in the same league as those we see today - in the same vein as airports built in the 60s having to cope with 747s/A380s.

Regards, SD..

Just like all those airfields built in the 40's are only suitable for small towns

KE

[VRB_20kt]

The educational aims of the BBC continue apace.

“But high tides helped the tugs and dredgers in their work and early on Monday, the stern (rear of the ship) was freed and the great ship swung across the canal, to shouts of celebration. Hours later, the bow (front) too came unstuck, and the Ever Given was able to move out.”

(Presumably “the pointy end” and “the blunt end” was too technical?)

[MikeB]

Are those individual tall stacks of containers interlinked in some way at intervals up to the top with the next stack or are they completely free standing justrelying on the inter- locking pegs or whatever they are called at the corner of each container?

A good summary on container lashing produced by one of the P&I Clubs (ship insurers) here https://www.standard-club.com/media/24168/amastersguidetocontainersecuring2ndedition-3.pdf

[ROG]

Had a conducted tour of london gateway a couple of years ago--very interesting--highly organized-all computerized.
Believe you can still arrange to visit if interested.