Did you watch the video! The Touarreg can tow a 747.Who buys a Touareg to tow? The Tundra costs less, but tows more.
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Did you watch the video! The Touarreg can tow a 747.Who buys a Touareg to tow? The Tundra costs less, but tows more.
I'm sure they thought of that but that idea occurred to me, too. I thought these types of canals had gates in them to raise or lower the water level as the ships traveled through. Or was that just the Panama canal? But either remove the sand or dam it on both sides and flood it and lift the ship up.Seal off the canal on both sides of the ship like canal locks, then pump in water. How high do you have to raise the water level? A foot?
The ship is huge and weighs about 220,000 us tons. A large D9 Cat has a maximum tractive effort of about 72 tons. It just won't work.Why can't they use several bulldozers and long ropes to move the ship?
The Suez Canal has no locks, and the shores are mostly sand, I’m not sure how they could raise water levels enough without flooding the surrounding area. It would probably take walling off both ends of the canal and the sides all around the ship to pump in water. Container ships have gotten so big that it’s really difficult to do anything with them when they run aground.I'm sure they thought of that but that idea occurred to me, too. I thought these types of canals had gates in them to raise or lower the water level as the ships traveled through. Or was that just the Panama canal? But either remove the sand or dam it on both sides and flood it and lift the ship up.
It is a bit humorous that with all the technology in the world today that this seemingly simple matter has us stumped. Also, I don't understand how the "high winds" that "caused" this were only 30 mph. Surely, they don't shut down the Suez Canal when the winds hit 30 mph, do they?
The ship is huge and weighs about 220,000 us tons. A large D9 Cat has a maximum tractive effort of about 72 tons. It just won't work.
I was working at DSME when Maersk was building a series of the 10 largest … absolutely stunning but yes … they rely on bridge cranes lifts …Most container ships either don’t have cranes, or, if they do, are only able to get the container onto the pier right next to the ship.
A big crane that can reach to the far side, or even middle, of this ship is a shore installation- you won’t see one on another ship.
From what I can see of this one, it’s “gearless”, that is, no cranes. This is the more common configuration. Cheaper to build. More container capacity. More economical in operation. The bigger the ship, the more likely it goes into major ports and it doesn’t need an on board cargo handling ability.
So, it can’t off load to a barge next to it, and no other container ship has the reach to take containers off it. I suspect there isn’t a barge big enough to float a crane with enough swing and weight capacity to offload the ship on site. The Suez isn’t that wide, they don’t have a lot of room to pull up next to this thing.
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There's good hope they will get it free today, but if not the plan B is to put smaller container vessels alongside and move containers onto themWhere do you put the crane?
The ship is huge and weighs about 220,000 us tons. A large D9 Cat has a maximum tractive effort of about 72 tons. It just won't work.
That would take years. Years of earth moving.Seal off the canal on both sides of the ship like canal locks, then pump in water. How high do you have to raise the water level? A foot?
I said, Seal off the canal on both sides of the ship. As in a few feet behind and in front of it. On The Curse of Oak Island, they sealed off an entire bay or cove in a few days so they could examine the area without the ocean there. Couldn't be much harder here.That would take years. Years of earth moving.
Followed by years of pumping billions of acre-feet of water to raise the Suez one foot.
To float one ship?
Seriously. How long and how many pumps to raise a canal that is 120 miles long?
In the desert. So, don’t forget evaporative losses....
Or tie them off to the nearest palm tree.Drop anchor onto boats and have them drop them into the canal at a further point..and have the winches to pull on the anchors.