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Suez Canal Blocked for 6 days, March, 2021

Stopping for Repairs?


"The huge container ship that blocked the Suez Canal has left the UK and is heading for Germany.
The Ever Given docked at Felixstowe, Suffolk, at 16:30 BST on Tuesday, its first UK visit since causing disruption to global shipping.
Operated by Taiwanese firm Evergreen Marine, the ship was originally due to arrive in early April.
The 400m-long (1,300ft) vessel left in the early hours of Thursday after 2,000 containers were unloaded by crane.
Its next destination is Hamburg."






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Ever Given now reported headed for Malta, to arrive 8-13-2021, at 21:00, going 9.7 knots.


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Does Malta have cheap ship repair docks?

"Three alliances of the world’s largest ocean carriers (2M, THE Alliance, and Ocean Alliance) now dominate the industry, carrying more than 80 percent of the world’s cargo, while a few smaller carriers try to carve out enough of a niche market to stay afloat.

Ship owners, too, have run away from their obligations to the seafaring countries whose flags they formerly flew. Instead, they scour the planet for the least restrictive regulatory regimes, cheapest labor, and least stringent safety and environmental regulations. These ships fly a “flag of convenience” on their sterns; they are registered in a country with no genuine link to the ship, its crew, or the cargo it carries. Most Ocean Alliance vessels, for instance, fly the flag of Malta.

Ships spend most of their time in international waters, beyond the reach of law. If it wasn’t for the International Transport Workers Federation, few people ashore would ever know about the mistreatment of crews—unpaid wages, long hours of work and isolation, abandonment, and the crew change crisis, in which seafarers are forced to work long after their individual contracts end, without the option to return home."



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Does Malta have cheap ship repair docks?

"Three alliances of the world’s largest ocean carriers (2M, THE Alliance, and Ocean Alliance) now dominate the industry, carrying more than 80 percent of the world’s cargo, while a few smaller carriers try to carve out enough of a niche market to stay afloat.

Ship owners, too, have run away from their obligations to the seafaring countries whose flags they formerly flew. Instead, they scour the planet for the least restrictive regulatory regimes, cheapest labor, and least stringent safety and environmental regulations. These ships fly a “flag of convenience” on their sterns; they are registered in a country with no genuine link to the ship, its crew, or the cargo it carries. Most Ocean Alliance vessels, for instance, fly the flag of Malta.

Ships spend most of their time in international waters, beyond the reach of law. If it wasn’t for the International Transport Workers Federation, few people ashore would ever know about the mistreatment of crews—unpaid wages, long hours of work and isolation, abandonment, and the crew change crisis, in which seafarers are forced to work long after their individual contracts end, without the option to return home."



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Ship repair is a big business in Malta. I remember reading that the USS Liberty put in there for repairs in 1967.


 
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EVER GIVEN photo
Track on MapAdd PhotoAdd to Fleet

POSITION & VOYAGE DATA​


Qingdao, China
ETA: Sep 17, 17:00



Course / Speed156.5° / 12.4 kn
Current draught11.0 m
Navigation StatusUnder way






"ATD: Aug 20, 02:41 UTC

MAP POSITION & WEATHER​

Lat:
28.89424

Lon:
32.84175

28° 53.654′


32° 50.505′
Newer position via Satellite
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29 °C
84 °F
19.2 kn
9.9 m/s
N/A

PORT CALLS​

Port Said Anch., Egypt
Arrival (UTC)
Aug 19, 19:30
Departure (UTC)
Aug 20, 02:41
In Port
7h 10m
Malta Bunkering Area 3, Malta
Arrival (UTC)
Aug 15, 09:06
Departure (UTC)
Aug 15, 21:37
In Port
12h 30m
Felixstowe, United Kingdom (UK)
Arrival (UTC)
Aug 3, 14:35
Departure (UTC)
Aug 5, 04:27
In Port
1d 13h
Rotterdam Maasvlakte, Netherlands
Arrival (UTC)
Jul 29, 02:57
Departure (UTC)
Aug 2, 04:27
In Port
4d 1h
Historic"



Ever Given has apparently passed inspection for full speed, traveling 12.4 knots.

Also ready for a full load, as Ever Given is headed for Qingdao, China
ETA: Sep 17, 17:00

From the map position, the Ever Given appears to have successfully passed through the Suez Canal.

Repairs must have been completed quickly, not in port long.


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Ship repair is a big business in Malta. I remember reading that the USS Liberty put in there for repairs in 1967.

"The massive container ship is destined for Singapore, according to Lloyd's List.
In a tale of redemption, the massive Ever Given container ship that once beached itself in the Suez Canal has successfully navigated the passageway four months later.

The ship is currently headed to Singapore for repairs, according to Lloyd's List container shipping editor James Baker.

The vessel's feat is fantastic news for the global shipping industry - the Ever Given cost the global economy an estimated $400 million per hour when it blocked the Suez Canal - but is awful news for the corners of the internet hoping for a redux."



Apparently further repairs are needed for the Ever Given, scheduled for Singapore.



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"Ever Given heads to Qingdao for repairs... Sam ChambersAugust 23, 2021"

"Once a compensation sum had finally been agreed the ship was allowed to leave Egypt. Its class society, ABS, allowed the ship to head to northern Europe to offload its cargoes before returning to Asia, via the Suez, for repairs.

The SCA (Suez Canal Authority) made a big deal of the Ever Given’s latest Suez transit on Friday (see Tweet below). The boxship is scheduled to arrive in Qingdao on September 18, a city with a number of repair facilities including Qingdao Beihai, which can accommodate giant vessels such as the Ever Given. The choice of Qingdao also neatly fits with the start of a loop once the vessel goes back into service on the Asia – Europe tradelane."




"REPAIRS IN QINGDAO TO LAST UNTIL NOVEMBER
Tue Aug 24 10:22:47 CEST 2021 Timsen
The 'Ever Given' is currently on its way to the port of Qingdao, where it will be repaired with an ETA as of Sep 17. According to the current schedule, the container ship will be deployed again on Nov 15 in the CES service of the shipping company Evergreen. After stops in several Chinese ports, Singapore and the port of Colombo in Sri Lanka, the ship sets sail for Piraeus and from there to Antwerp. The ship is expected there on Dec 24 at the Antwerp Gateway terminal. On Dec 26, the 'Ever Given' sails on to Hamburg.

UPS SHE DOES IT AGAIN​

Fri Aug 20 10:59:49 CEST 2021 Timsen
On Aug 20 the 'Ever Given', en route from Felixstowe after unloading its cargo, has entered the Suez Canal again after arriving in Port Said the previous night. The vessel was passing through the Suez Canal accompanied by the two tugs 'Mosaed 1' and 'Mosaed 2'. She has passed through the Suez Canal 22 times before since its delivery in 2018 and is now headed to a repair yard in Qingdao which has docks large enough to take the ship."





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At sea, draught was 11 m. Ever Given may now be in dry dock, for repairs.


"POSITION & VOYAGE DATA​


Qingdao, China
ATA: Oct 4, 07:33 UTC ARRIVED



Course / Speed329.8° / 0.0 kn
Current draught7.8 m
Navigation StatusMoored
Position received3 mins ago i
IMO / MMSI9811000 / 353136000
CallsignH3RC
FlagPanama
Length / Beam400 / 59 m"





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Reports of damage to the bow of the Ever Given, from the grounding in the Suez canal.

"Photo taken on Oct. 4, 2021 shows the Ever Given container ship berthed at a ship-repairing dock of Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. The Ever Given container ship which blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week in March arrived in Qingdao on Monday for repair. (Xinhua/Li Ziheng)"




Photo showing details of damage to Bow of Hull of Ever Given, below the water line, on the Port side. There is about a 15 foot crack in the port side of the hull extending back from the bow. it is not completely in Dry Dock.







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"The damage is so extensive that there's a "whole new lower bow section in the yard prepared," according to Dr. Salvatore R. Mercogliano, an associate professor of history at Campbell University and adjunct professor at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy."

" One Twitter user compared the damaged "bulbous bow" to a photo that appears to show the same section of the boat wedged underneath the side of the canal."


Bulbous Bow:

"A bulbous bow is a protruding bulb at the bow (or front) of a ship just below the waterline. The bulb modifies the way the water flows around the hull, reducing drag and thus increasing speed, range, fuel efficiency, and stability. Large ships with bulbous bows generally have twelve to fifteen per cent better fuel efficiency than similar vessels without them.[2] A bulbous bow also increases the buoyancy of the forward part and hence reduces the pitching of the ship to a small degree."



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"Nearly eight months on from the moment it rammed into the eastern banks of the Suez Canal, crunching its bow, and causing a globally followed ship queue, the Ever Given is fully repaired and back in service, picking up containers in China bound for Europe.

The Evergreen-operated ship underwent extensive repairs at Qingdao Beihai shipyard for six weeks, twice as long as originally scheduled, and is now sporting a new bulbous bow as it makes its way south through China.

State media reported the ship loaded some 5,000 containers on Saturday at Qingdao port and is now bound for other Chinese ports plus a stop in Malaysia before it makes for Europe."



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Everyone is just waiting for her to block the Canal again.
 
"Steel ship structures are prone to developing cracks as a result of their all welded construction, material imperfections, loading conditions, fatigue and corrosion. Much of the research in this field has been focussed on crack growth or propagation from a fatigue perspective. However cracks can develop as early as during the construction stage itself and not all of them would be detected and rectified. Normally these cracks may not pose a direct threat to the ship structural integrity but when subjected to a sudden impact force typically associated with collision, allision and grounding accidents, these existing cracks could propagate at a faster rate and lead to structural failure and compromise the tank leak integrity. This paper presents criteria for assessment of cracks based on inducement factors which influence crack initiation in the hull structure even during the early stages of operation."


The 18 foot crack in the front of the hull of the Ever Given was repaired by welding on a fabricated bottom of the front of the hull. Some welders perform annealing treatments by heating the welded sections with acetylene. to prevent cracks from forming. What process of annealing was best for the Ever Given repair? What was actually done? How much extra repair time did this take?

How many steel containers are floating around just below the surface of the ocean? How well will the repair welding hold up in a collision with a container? How many collisions with containers will the Ever Given withstand without the bow cracking again?

Whose fault was it that the Ever Given ran aground in the Suez Canal? Egypt or God? Why is there no final report?

Who shortchanged the pilots on their established gratuities? Has this shortchanging been corrected?

Who is responsible for picking up, or sinking, steel and other containers, floating around, in which oceans?


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"PORT ANGELES, Wash. — About 40 shipping containers tumbled into the Pacific Ocean in rough seas west of the Strait of Juan de Fuca entrance on Friday, authorities said.

The U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Northwest said on Twitter Friday afternoon that the ship lost the containers when it listed to its side.

A Coast Guard helicopter from Port Angeles was sent to the area and the crew was monitoring 35 floating containers as they move north. The ship was headed to Canada when the incident happened, officials said."





Floating shipping containers tracked by the US Coast Guard. Maybe if you hit a shipping container just find out what shipping company stopped it, and send them the repair bill.


Google search on containters

 
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