Traffic jam in the suez canal

[woodland]

TSIPP.............
Lloyd’s of London estimate about 400 million per hour, just a little more than what it costs for the CN main line to be down.

My cousin was a contractor and digging beside the CN main line west of Edmonton and the dirt fell away from under the track. He said he never seen that much excitement in his life. It took out the fibre optic line as well. The company president was in Edmonton and he showed up in a chopper to watch over everything. It was about 20 years ago and they said it was over a million dollars an hour loss. Luckily he wasn’t on the hook for the eight hour loss since he was under their control.

Looks like they need some more artillery for the battle there..................

[Old Cowzilla]

A couple of quadtracks and some bungie rope ?

[burnt]

400 million an hour. That's a lot of coin for someone to shell out.

Some estimates say weeks, not days. For everyone's sake, I sure hope not. It would take a long time to unload those cans.

Working with that tonnage is far beyond the comprehension of most.

I got a wagon load of corn stuck sideways on a lane-way once. There was nobody behind me.

[Jordy2323]

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[Birddog]

I heard Al and Gord from Quiring Towing are inbound. Should have it out in no time.

[shtferbrains]

That ship looks totaly beached
. The pic of the bow is virtualy out of the water.
They won't be pulling all that tonnage off the beach with a few tug boats.

[furrowtickler]

They need to hire this guy ..


Someone who will simply just get the job done

[jazz]

Maybe climate change will raise the water level in a few days like the climate cult keeps telling us.

Saudi oil uses that transit. Wouldnt that be something if L5 gets shut down and saudi crude isnt available for eastern canada.

[samhill]

Seems to me a push one side and pull from other side, sorry, starboard and port, at rear, sorry, stern, would be more effective.

[agstar77]

There is a real concern pulling and pushing too hard could cause structural damage. Worst case, it cracks in half. Best if it is more buoyant.

[redleaf]

Would think there has to be some rigs like the Christine Rose in that part of the world that would be on the scene. As pointed out earlier there is a lot of that boat resting on the shallow side of the canal and short of unloading it the only way to float it is to dig a hole under it.

[jazz]

Would think there has to be some rigs like the Christine Rose in that part of the world that would be on the scene. As pointed out earlier there is a lot of that boat resting on the shallow side of the canal and short of unloading it the only way to float it is to dig a hole under it.

The news reports are saying its actually lodged on both sides so just cant be tugged out straight or unloaded quickly or even dug under without a lot of caution because if the distribution of weight gets off, she could crack mid hull and then you would have a environmental disaster in that straight.