Mar 30, 2021
The mega containership Ever Given is now free and floating in the Suez Canal. The ship had been aground at both ends and wedged sideways in the canal since last Tuesday. It took a combination of a high spring tide and more than a dozen tugs to pull her free. That’s after crews dug and dredged to help free the ship.
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons: Robert Schwemmer for NOAA’s National Ocean Service
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Mar 30, 2021 | Ship Report Podcasts
The mega containership Ever Given is now free and floating in the Suez Canal. The ship had been aground at both ends and wedged sideways in the canal since last Tuesday. It took a combination of a high spring tide and more than a dozen tugs to pull her free. That’s after crews dug and dredged to help free the ship.
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons: Robert Schwemmer for NOAA’s National Ocean Service
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Mar 29, 2021
The US Navy hospital ship USNS Mercy left Astoria this week after an extended shipyard visit where she underwent maintenance and repairs, a normal procedure for ships that happens about every two years. She’s now ready to resume her humanitarian mission serving the world with medical aid where she’s needed.
Photo credit: Joanne Rideout. The USNS Mercy heads out of Astoria, headed for the Columbia River Bar.
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Mar 29, 2021 | Ship Report Podcasts
The US Navy hospital ship USNS Mercy left Astoria this week after an extended shipyard visit where she underwent maintenance and repairs, a normal procedure for ships that happens about every two years. She’s now ready to resume her humanitarian mission serving the world with medical aid where she’s needed.
Photo credit: Joanne Rideout. The USNS Mercy heads out of Astoria, headed for the Columbia River Bar.
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Mar 26, 2021
As the mega containership Ever Given remains stuck in the Suez Canal, ships are backing up on either end. With no clear end in sight to the grounding, some ships are taking the long way ’round, around the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa.
While waiting is expensive, making the extra long trip around the bottom of Africa is expensive too, and dangerous, especially at this time of year. We’ll talk about what the risks are.
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons – Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (near Cape Town). HDR composite from multiple exposures.
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Mar 26, 2021 | Ship Report Podcasts
As the mega containership Ever Given remains stuck in the Suez Canal, ships are backing up on either end. With no clear end in sight to the grounding, some ships are taking the long way ’round, around the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa.
While waiting is expensive, making the extra long trip around the bottom of Africa is expensive too, and dangerous, especially at this time of year. We’ll talk about what the risks are.
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons – Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (near Cape Town). HDR composite from multiple exposures.
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Mar 25, 2021
Today we’ll talk a bit about factors at play in the Ever Given mega containership grounding in the Suez Canal.
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons, NOAA.
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Mar 25, 2021 | Ship Report Podcasts
Today we’ll talk a bit about factors at play in the Ever Given mega containership grounding in the Suez Canal.
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons, NOAA.
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Mar 24, 2021
Today we’re talking about the mega containership, the Ever Given, that is hard aground in Suez Canal. It’s a nightmare scenario for a vital internation trade chokepoint, and ships are already backing up on both ends of the blockage as crews try to free the ship, which is wedged sideways in the narron canal.
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Mar 24, 2021 | Ship Report Podcasts
Today we’re talking about the mega containership, the Ever Given, that is hard aground in Suez Canal. It’s a nightmare scenario for a vital internation trade chokepoint, and ships are already backing up on both ends of the blockage as crews try to free the ship, which is wedged sideways in the narron canal.
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Mar 19, 2021
Today’s weather is dynamic on land and sea, we’ll talk about what’s happening on the river and in the ocean, and how it may affect ship traffic.
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Mar 19, 2021 | Ship Report Podcasts
Today’s weather is dynamic on land and sea, we’ll talk about what’s happening on the river and in the ocean, and how it may affect ship traffic.
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