Suez canal traffic jam

[winjim]

If anyone's waiting for any stuff to be delivered from anywhere East of Africa, don't hold your breath. There's an absolutely mahoosive container ship the 'Ever Given', stuck in the Suez canal. Apparently they've tried shoving out of the way with every tug boat in Egypt, all to no avail. But don't worry, they've now gone and deployed the world's dinkiest little excavator to dig it out.


View: https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1374468169784459267?s=19

 

[HMS_Dave]

It's probably wedged by a sneaky Russian Sub...

 

[cookiemonster]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/24/huge-container-ship-blocks-suez-canal-evergreen

More than a few red faces on that ship just now.

 

[tyred]

See, I always knew that the sides of a canal should have high Viz added. How else is the captain supposed to see it?

 

[biggs682]

That's a big wedgie

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Does this mean there will be a shortage of strawberry jam?

 

[MartinQ]

See, I always knew that the sides of a canal should have high Viz added. How else is the captain supposed to see it?

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Not sure how that would help though, Shirley it would distract the captain more?

 

[PeteXXX]

It's still there.... 🇵🇦

 

[Drago]

Well, we better invade Egypt and take back control.

 

[PeteXXX]

Winjims got a thread going about this..

 

[Drago]

But this thread is better. More scope for irreverent comments about the British Empire.

 

[PeteXXX]

And photos of how long it might take to dig it out... 😂

 

[PeteXXX]

The Grauniad can't even spell the name rihgt.. The ship is the Ever Given.

 

[T4tomo]

The Grauniad can't even spell the name rihgt.. The ship is the Ever Given.

To be fair there is no clue whatsoever in the picture as to the name of the ship !

 

[PeteXXX]

To be fair there is no clue whatsoever in the picture as to the name of the ship !

Why be fair? Shoddy reporting!! The company is Evergreen.
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