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Suez Canal Blockage shows that Indians are all SCUM, IRRESPONSIBLE and Corrupted to the CORE
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Your smelly brown heroes are spastic and should not be allowed to commandeer any machinery bigger than the tuktuk
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You have no idea how hopeless that place and the people are..
Lets just say I was not born a racist and Chinese chauvinist
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Ship's name is Ever Given (not Ever Green). If ever there was a clusterfuck, this is it!
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Wot about the food! Truly absolute flavourful.
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Looks like egypt will have to spend even more money making the canal wider and good for two way traffic right through instead of just partly.
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Why don't you go and experience life there for yourself?
Stay for half a year like I did. It will change your life.
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Somebody who ended up eorking for jet airways was raving about life in mumbai. No need to go market. Fresh produce and meat sent to your home.
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Only two dollars for a professional full body massage in India. You will come back a changed man.
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Good for him. You should go too. After a week of eating their "fresh produce and meat" your stomach should have been cleared inside out.
Mumbai is overrated. Noisy, crowded and expensive. But saw a few beautiful Indian women who spoke with fake American accent at the hotel lounge. They like to put very strong jasmine perfume which put me off pokka green tea for the next few years.
I just wanted to hang myself every night instead of going back to the client's office the next day
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here we almost hv all indian crew..VIVIAN ISWARAN SHANMU S MENON INDRANEE....GUPTA NEW TH CEO
SO PITCH DARK
SO PITCH DARK
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Currency will strengthen with this team.
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LIKE MAK PUKI LU
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LOOK AT VS OZ $$
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This is before. Wait till after.
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Tugs and dredgers try to free megaship blocking Suez Canal for a 4th day
Egyptian tug boats trying to free the Taiwan-owned MV Ever Given, lodged sideways and impeding all traffic across Egypt's Suez Canal. (Photo: AFP)
26 Mar 2021 05:19PM (Updated: 26 Mar 2021 05:20PM)
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CAIRO: Tugboats and dredgers were working Friday (Mar 26) to free a giant container ship blocking Egypt's Suez Canal for a fourth day, forcing companies to re-route services from the vital shipping lane around Africa.
The MV Ever Given, which is longer than four football fields, has been wedged diagonally across the entire canal since Tuesday, when social media users began posting about it.
The blockage has caused huge traffic jams for dozens of ships and major delays in the delivery of oil and other products.
READ: Megaship blocks Suez Canal: What we know so far
READ: Ship stuck in the Suez Canal unleashes flood of Internet jokes
An official from Shoei Kisen Kaisha, the Japanese company that owns the ship, told AFP on Friday that crews were working to refloat it.
"Tug boats and dredgers are being used to crush rocks" in efforts to dislodge the boat, she told AFP, adding that the company did not have information on the exact status of damage to the vessel.
Global shipping giant Maersk and Germany's Hapag-Lloyd have both said they are looking into re-routing around the southern tip of Africa.
"With the Suez Canal set to remain blocked for at least another day or two, shipping companies are being forced to confront the spectre of taking the far longer route around the Cape of Good Hope to get to Europe or the east coast of North America," said Lloyd's List, a shipping data and news company.
"The first container ship to do this is Evergreen's Ever Greet ... a sistership to Ever Given," it said in a statement.
READ: Suez Canal blockage may disrupt supplies to the region: Ong Ye Kung
READ: Egypt's Suez Canal: A history of the key route
The Suez Canal drastically shortens travel between Asia and Europe.
The Singapore-Rotterdam route, for example, is 6,000km and up to two weeks shorter via the canal than going around Africa's Cape of Good Hope.
FEARS BLOCKAGE COULD LAST WEEKS
Egypt's Suez Canal Authority has said between 15,000 and 20,000 cubic metres of sand would have to be removed in order to reach a depth of 12-16 metres and refloat the ship.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's seaports adviser, Mohab Mamish, told AFP late Thursday that "maritime navigation will resume again within 48-72 hours, maximum".
"I have experience with several rescue operations of this kind and as the former chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, I know every centimetre of the canal," said Mamish, who oversaw the recent expansion of the waterway.
However, salvage experts had warned earlier on Thursday the shutdown could last days or even weeks.
Smit Salvage has in the past worked on the wrecks of Russian nuclear submarine Kursk and Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia.
Evergreen has asked Smit Salvage and Japanese company Nippon Salvage to put in place a "more effective plan" to refloat the ship.
Smit Salvage said it was deploying a team to the site Thursday to assess what it would take to dislodge the Panama-flagged vessels.
Crude prices jumped by almost six per cent on Wednesday in response to the Suez Canal blockage.
But they tumbled on Thursday, at one point completely wiping out the earlier gains.
"Oil prices corrected excess gains that accumulated from the Suez Canal blockage as the disruption's effect is likely not one that will last too long," said Bjornar Tonhaugen of energy consultancy Rystad.
Egyptian tug boats trying to free the Taiwan-owned MV Ever Given, lodged sideways and impeding all traffic across Egypt's Suez Canal. (Photo: AFP)
26 Mar 2021 05:19PM (Updated: 26 Mar 2021 05:20PM)
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CAIRO: Tugboats and dredgers were working Friday (Mar 26) to free a giant container ship blocking Egypt's Suez Canal for a fourth day, forcing companies to re-route services from the vital shipping lane around Africa.
The MV Ever Given, which is longer than four football fields, has been wedged diagonally across the entire canal since Tuesday, when social media users began posting about it.
The blockage has caused huge traffic jams for dozens of ships and major delays in the delivery of oil and other products.
READ: Megaship blocks Suez Canal: What we know so far
READ: Ship stuck in the Suez Canal unleashes flood of Internet jokes
An official from Shoei Kisen Kaisha, the Japanese company that owns the ship, told AFP on Friday that crews were working to refloat it.
"Tug boats and dredgers are being used to crush rocks" in efforts to dislodge the boat, she told AFP, adding that the company did not have information on the exact status of damage to the vessel.
Global shipping giant Maersk and Germany's Hapag-Lloyd have both said they are looking into re-routing around the southern tip of Africa.
"With the Suez Canal set to remain blocked for at least another day or two, shipping companies are being forced to confront the spectre of taking the far longer route around the Cape of Good Hope to get to Europe or the east coast of North America," said Lloyd's List, a shipping data and news company.
"The first container ship to do this is Evergreen's Ever Greet ... a sistership to Ever Given," it said in a statement.
READ: Suez Canal blockage may disrupt supplies to the region: Ong Ye Kung
READ: Egypt's Suez Canal: A history of the key route
The Suez Canal drastically shortens travel between Asia and Europe.
The Singapore-Rotterdam route, for example, is 6,000km and up to two weeks shorter via the canal than going around Africa's Cape of Good Hope.
FEARS BLOCKAGE COULD LAST WEEKS
Egypt's Suez Canal Authority has said between 15,000 and 20,000 cubic metres of sand would have to be removed in order to reach a depth of 12-16 metres and refloat the ship.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's seaports adviser, Mohab Mamish, told AFP late Thursday that "maritime navigation will resume again within 48-72 hours, maximum".
"I have experience with several rescue operations of this kind and as the former chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, I know every centimetre of the canal," said Mamish, who oversaw the recent expansion of the waterway.
However, salvage experts had warned earlier on Thursday the shutdown could last days or even weeks.
Smit Salvage has in the past worked on the wrecks of Russian nuclear submarine Kursk and Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia.
Evergreen has asked Smit Salvage and Japanese company Nippon Salvage to put in place a "more effective plan" to refloat the ship.
Smit Salvage said it was deploying a team to the site Thursday to assess what it would take to dislodge the Panama-flagged vessels.
Crude prices jumped by almost six per cent on Wednesday in response to the Suez Canal blockage.
But they tumbled on Thursday, at one point completely wiping out the earlier gains.
"Oil prices corrected excess gains that accumulated from the Suez Canal blockage as the disruption's effect is likely not one that will last too long," said Bjornar Tonhaugen of energy consultancy Rystad.
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Ship stuck in the Suez Canal unleashes flood of Internet jokes
A screen capture of the Twitter profile for @SuezDiggerGuy as seen on Mar 26, 2021.
26 Mar 2021 04:20PM (Updated: 26 Mar 2021 05:29PM)
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TOKYO: A giant ship has blocked the famous Suez Canal but opened up a torrent of memes and gifs lampooning the hapless container carrier, which has been jammed in the waterway since Tuesday (Mar 23).
Elements of global commerce have been brought to a standstill, but no one was hurt, and the environment is so far undamaged. The lack of stakes surrounding the Ever Given's grounding has made it a prime target for jokes.
READ: Megaship blocks Suez Canal: What we know so far
Nine tugs attempted to move it while getting some help from the shore with two workers and a digger clawing into the sandy embankment where the Ever Given's bow is dug in.
Images of them - dwarfed by the hull of the monster they were trying to dig out - circulated with comments on Twitter such as "these two guys and their digger are currently trying to save global trade".
The Twitter account @SuezDiggerGuy, "Guy With the Digger at Suez Canal," had 16,000 followers by about 4.30pm Singapore time and a profile line that read: "Trying my best. No promises."
Its timeline was replete with observations such as "Thinking of naming my digger, Ever Digging" and bemoaning having his leave rescinded by managers.
Netizens also conjured up Lego images of the digger and the bow of the container ship, which is carrying consumer goods from Chinese factories to European households.
Once it became clear the ship could be stuck for weeks, a website quickly spun up, https://istheshipstillstuck.com.
And the memes filled the Internet like cargo ships piling up in the Red Sea. Many of the most popular touched on the angst of the last pandemic-filled year; one labelled the hulking ship "my COVID depression & anxiety" and the tiny digger on shore as "going on a daily walk."
Screen capture of the Is The Ship Still Stuck? website as seen on Mar 26, 2021.
Source: Reuters/zl
A screen capture of the Twitter profile for @SuezDiggerGuy as seen on Mar 26, 2021.
26 Mar 2021 04:20PM (Updated: 26 Mar 2021 05:29PM)
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TOKYO: A giant ship has blocked the famous Suez Canal but opened up a torrent of memes and gifs lampooning the hapless container carrier, which has been jammed in the waterway since Tuesday (Mar 23).
Elements of global commerce have been brought to a standstill, but no one was hurt, and the environment is so far undamaged. The lack of stakes surrounding the Ever Given's grounding has made it a prime target for jokes.
READ: Megaship blocks Suez Canal: What we know so far
Nine tugs attempted to move it while getting some help from the shore with two workers and a digger clawing into the sandy embankment where the Ever Given's bow is dug in.
Images of them - dwarfed by the hull of the monster they were trying to dig out - circulated with comments on Twitter such as "these two guys and their digger are currently trying to save global trade".
The Twitter account @SuezDiggerGuy, "Guy With the Digger at Suez Canal," had 16,000 followers by about 4.30pm Singapore time and a profile line that read: "Trying my best. No promises."
Its timeline was replete with observations such as "Thinking of naming my digger, Ever Digging" and bemoaning having his leave rescinded by managers.
Netizens also conjured up Lego images of the digger and the bow of the container ship, which is carrying consumer goods from Chinese factories to European households.
Once it became clear the ship could be stuck for weeks, a website quickly spun up, https://istheshipstillstuck.com.
And the memes filled the Internet like cargo ships piling up in the Red Sea. Many of the most popular touched on the angst of the last pandemic-filled year; one labelled the hulking ship "my COVID depression & anxiety" and the tiny digger on shore as "going on a daily walk."
Screen capture of the Is The Ship Still Stuck? website as seen on Mar 26, 2021.
Source: Reuters/zl
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Suez Canal blockage sets shipping rates racing, oil and gas tankers diverted away
Satellite image shows the Ever Given container ship, a 400m-long vessel, lodged sideways and impeding all traffic across Egypt's Suez Canal. (Photo: AFP)
26 Mar 2021 01:03PM (Updated: 26 Mar 2021 01:05PM)
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SINGAPORE: Reeling from the blockage in the Suez Canal, shipping rates for oil product tankers have nearly doubled this week, and several vessels were diverted away from the vital waterway as a giant container ship remained wedged between both banks.
The 400m-long Ever Given has been stuck in the canal since Tuesday and efforts are under way to free the vessel although the process may take weeks amid bad weather.
The suspension of traffic through the narrow channel linking Europe and Asia has deepened problems for shipping lines that were already facing disruption and delays in supplying retail goods to consumers.
Satellite image of Gulf of Suez where cargo ships and oil tankers are waiting after a 400m-long cargo ship ran aground in the channel linking the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, blocking navigation. (Graphic: AFP)
READ: Commentary - Why the Suez Canal accident is a worst-case scenario for global trade
READ: Megaship blocks Suez Canal: What we know so far
More than 30 oil tankers have been waiting at either side of the canal to pass through since Tuesday, shipping data on Refinitiv showed.
"Aframax and Suezmax rates in the Mediterranean have also reacted first as the market starts to price in fewer vessels being available in the region," shipbroker Braemar ACM Shipbroking said.
At least four Long-Range 2 tankers that might have been headed towards Suez from the Atlantic basin are now likely to be evaluating a passage around the Cape of Good Hope, Braemar ACM said. Each LR-2 tanker can carry around 75,000 tonnes of oil.
Rising demand for Atlantic Basin crude within Europe will also increase the use of these smaller tankers and support freight rates, it added.
The cost of shipping clean products, such as gasoline and diesel, from the Russian port of Tuapse on the Black Sea to southern France increased from US$1.49 per barrel on Mar 22 to US$2.58 a barrel on Mar 25, a 73 per cent increase, according to Refinitiv.
The shipping index benchmark for LR2 vessels from the Middle East to Japan, also known as TC1, had climbed to 137.5 worldscale points as of early Friday, compared with 100 worldscale points last week, said Anoop Jayaraj, clean tanker broker at Fearnleys Singapore.
Similarly, the index for freight rates for Long-Range 1 (LR1) vessels on the same route, known as TC5, stood at 130 worldscale points on Friday, up from 125 at the end of last week. Worldscale is an industry tool used to calculate freight rates.
A Yang Ming cargo ship and another ship are anchored outside the Suez Canal on Mar 25, 2021, after the Ever Given container ship ran aground and blocked traffic. (Photo: Reuters/Amr Abdallah)
READ: Suez Canal suspends traffic amid ‘extreme difficulty’ in freeing grounded container ship
READ: Suez Canal blockage may disrupt supplies to the region: Ong Ye Kung
The impact of the shipping delays on energy markets is likely to be mitigated by demand for crude oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) being in the low season, analysts said.
"The seasonal nature of this flow means that we are unlikely to see pressure put on LNG shippers moving cargoes to the east as the longer and cheaper Cape routes are favoured," data intelligence firm Kpler said.
Several LNG tankers have been diverted, one Singapore-based shipbroker said, adding that sentiment for LNG tanker rates are more positive following the incident.
He added that some European buyers anticipating delays of LNG from Qatar may be considering other options such as buying in the spot market. Still, with demand for LNG being in the low season, the impact may be minimal, analysts said.
READ: Stranded Suez ship's owner, insurers face millions in claims
If the blockage lasts for two weeks, about 1 million tonnes of LNG could be delayed for delivery to Europe, Rystad Energy's head of gas and power markets Carlos Torres Diaz said in a note on Thursday.
This could double to more than 2 million tonnes of delayed cargo deliveries in a worst case scenario of the Canal being blocked for four weeks, he added.
Satellite image shows the Ever Given container ship, a 400m-long vessel, lodged sideways and impeding all traffic across Egypt's Suez Canal. (Photo: AFP)
26 Mar 2021 01:03PM (Updated: 26 Mar 2021 01:05PM)
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SINGAPORE: Reeling from the blockage in the Suez Canal, shipping rates for oil product tankers have nearly doubled this week, and several vessels were diverted away from the vital waterway as a giant container ship remained wedged between both banks.
The 400m-long Ever Given has been stuck in the canal since Tuesday and efforts are under way to free the vessel although the process may take weeks amid bad weather.
The suspension of traffic through the narrow channel linking Europe and Asia has deepened problems for shipping lines that were already facing disruption and delays in supplying retail goods to consumers.
READ: Commentary - Why the Suez Canal accident is a worst-case scenario for global trade
READ: Megaship blocks Suez Canal: What we know so far
More than 30 oil tankers have been waiting at either side of the canal to pass through since Tuesday, shipping data on Refinitiv showed.
"Aframax and Suezmax rates in the Mediterranean have also reacted first as the market starts to price in fewer vessels being available in the region," shipbroker Braemar ACM Shipbroking said.
At least four Long-Range 2 tankers that might have been headed towards Suez from the Atlantic basin are now likely to be evaluating a passage around the Cape of Good Hope, Braemar ACM said. Each LR-2 tanker can carry around 75,000 tonnes of oil.
Rising demand for Atlantic Basin crude within Europe will also increase the use of these smaller tankers and support freight rates, it added.
The cost of shipping clean products, such as gasoline and diesel, from the Russian port of Tuapse on the Black Sea to southern France increased from US$1.49 per barrel on Mar 22 to US$2.58 a barrel on Mar 25, a 73 per cent increase, according to Refinitiv.
The shipping index benchmark for LR2 vessels from the Middle East to Japan, also known as TC1, had climbed to 137.5 worldscale points as of early Friday, compared with 100 worldscale points last week, said Anoop Jayaraj, clean tanker broker at Fearnleys Singapore.
Similarly, the index for freight rates for Long-Range 1 (LR1) vessels on the same route, known as TC5, stood at 130 worldscale points on Friday, up from 125 at the end of last week. Worldscale is an industry tool used to calculate freight rates.
A Yang Ming cargo ship and another ship are anchored outside the Suez Canal on Mar 25, 2021, after the Ever Given container ship ran aground and blocked traffic. (Photo: Reuters/Amr Abdallah)
READ: Suez Canal suspends traffic amid ‘extreme difficulty’ in freeing grounded container ship
READ: Suez Canal blockage may disrupt supplies to the region: Ong Ye Kung
The impact of the shipping delays on energy markets is likely to be mitigated by demand for crude oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) being in the low season, analysts said.
"The seasonal nature of this flow means that we are unlikely to see pressure put on LNG shippers moving cargoes to the east as the longer and cheaper Cape routes are favoured," data intelligence firm Kpler said.
Several LNG tankers have been diverted, one Singapore-based shipbroker said, adding that sentiment for LNG tanker rates are more positive following the incident.
He added that some European buyers anticipating delays of LNG from Qatar may be considering other options such as buying in the spot market. Still, with demand for LNG being in the low season, the impact may be minimal, analysts said.
READ: Stranded Suez ship's owner, insurers face millions in claims
If the blockage lasts for two weeks, about 1 million tonnes of LNG could be delayed for delivery to Europe, Rystad Energy's head of gas and power markets Carlos Torres Diaz said in a note on Thursday.
This could double to more than 2 million tonnes of delayed cargo deliveries in a worst case scenario of the Canal being blocked for four weeks, he added.
