Suez canal traffic jam

[raleighnut]

" 'ere are you lifting your end?

Strain.... "Yeah"

" Oh, better start lifting my end then!"

Nice to get a Goon Show quote

 

[Accy cyclist]

There's a local rubbish collection/disposal/recycling firm called Suez.
https://quotes.suez.co.uk/?ppc_keyw...aKE84cefNfI7lAQ56vor75xljg529nRhoClvwQAvD_BwE
If they were to find themselves in financial difficulty,would it be another Suez crisis?🤔

 

[Beebo]

Oil prices have spiked as a result of this, so it is quite serious.

 

[winjim]

Oil prices have spiked as a result of this, so it is quite serious.

I just bought a new bottle of 3in1 so I'm sorted for now.

 

[irw]

I just bought a new bottle of 3in1 so I'm sorted for now.

Me too. Given I think I bought the last one at least 10 or more years ago, I should be good for the bike chains for a while...! (Interesting to note, the old one is metal, the new one is plastic! - The oil container that is, not the bike chains )

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

What we really need to know is whether the captain of the ship was wearing a cycle helmet!!!!!!


if not then clearly he would be at fault and should have the book thrown at him/her


'The People' need to know this!

 

[winjim]

What we really need to know is whether the captain of the ship was wearing a cycle helmet!!!!!!


if not then clearly he would be at fault and should have the book thrown at him/her


'The People' need to know this!

Probably not, they're cool talkin' high walkin' fast livin'.

 

[Drago]

Nice to get a Goon Show quote

Nice to know I'm not the only one old enough to recognise it as such!

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

It costs $380,000 to take a ship through the Suez canal. Nice little earner.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

It costs $380,000 to take a ship through the Suez canal. Nice little earner.

Lucky for the stuck ship's owners that they don't charge by the minute!

 

[winjim]

Lucky for the stuck ship's owners that they don't charge by the minute!

What do you reckon the value is of the cargo on that thing?

 

[PeteXXX]

But do the couple of hundred ships caught up in the queue have a claim against Evergreen? 🤔

 

[roley poley]

It costs $380,000 to take a ship through the Suez canal. Nice little earner.

Kind of like the Humber toll bridge..pay a fee for the built short-cut or drive the long way round

 

[snorri]

But don't worry, they've now gone and deployed the world's dinkiest little excavator to dig it out.

JS-R seems to be obsessesd with the size of the digger. It will be interesting to hear the cause of grounding, I hope we are provided with the dimensions of the failed component.

 

[winjim]

JS-R seems to be obsessesd with the size of the digger. It will be interesting to hear the cause of grounding, I hope we are provided with the dimensions of the failed component.

Reports are that it was a gust of wind, but I would have thought it would need to be a hell of a gust to blow that thing off course. Do they go through the canal under their own power or do they use tugs?

I have a suspicion that the excavator may just be far away.


Edit: from the instagram caption I guess they must use their own power...