Suez blocked by stuck ship!
Discussion
MOTORVATOR said:
Simpo Two said:
GliderRider said:
There is a bit of difference between filling the Dead Sea up to its previous, recent history, level, and filling it to the level of the Red Sea. It is 1,412 ft below sea level...
Pah, aqueduct!Or some inclined planes... big ones...
No need to fill it up, Think Archimedes, an 800m diameter wheel and a few camels to power it. Job done innit?
Simpo Two said:
MOTORVATOR said:
Simpo Two said:
GliderRider said:
There is a bit of difference between filling the Dead Sea up to its previous, recent history, level, and filling it to the level of the Red Sea. It is 1,412 ft below sea level...
Pah, aqueduct!Or some inclined planes... big ones...
No need to fill it up, Think Archimedes, an 800m diameter wheel and a few camels to power it. Job done innit?
Simpo Two said:
MOTORVATOR said:
Simpo Two said:
GliderRider said:
There is a bit of difference between filling the Dead Sea up to its previous, recent history, level, and filling it to the level of the Red Sea. It is 1,412 ft below sea level...
Pah, aqueduct!Or some inclined planes... big ones...
No need to fill it up, Think Archimedes, an 800m diameter wheel and a few camels to power it. Job done innit?
There's a garden gnome shortage caused by this !
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestersh...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestersh...
Slight tangent, but Hapag Lloyd have just ordered an additional 150,000 twenty foot containers (TFAs).
Aside from Suez chaos, they say delays with unloading containers from ports (especially Western USA) and additional delays with transport and unloading goods from the containers inland mean they are turning round one or two weeks slower than normal, so they need more units.
Full info here:
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/hapag-lloyd-shel...
Aside from Suez chaos, they say delays with unloading containers from ports (especially Western USA) and additional delays with transport and unloading goods from the containers inland mean they are turning round one or two weeks slower than normal, so they need more units.
Full info here:
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/hapag-lloyd-shel...
Digga said:
Slight tangent, but Hapag Lloyd have just ordered an additional 150,000 twenty foot containers (TFAs).
Aside from Suez chaos, they say delays with unloading containers from ports (especially Western USA) and additional delays with transport and unloading goods from the containers inland mean they are turning round one or two weeks slower than normal, so they need more units.
Full info here:
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/hapag-lloyd-shel...
$3,333.33 per container?Aside from Suez chaos, they say delays with unloading containers from ports (especially Western USA) and additional delays with transport and unloading goods from the containers inland mean they are turning round one or two weeks slower than normal, so they need more units.
Full info here:
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/hapag-lloyd-shel...
The Mad Monk said:
Digga said:
Slight tangent, but Hapag Lloyd have just ordered an additional 150,000 twenty foot containers (TFAs).
Aside from Suez chaos, they say delays with unloading containers from ports (especially Western USA) and additional delays with transport and unloading goods from the containers inland mean they are turning round one or two weeks slower than normal, so they need more units.
Full info here:
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/hapag-lloyd-shel...
$3,333.33 per container?Aside from Suez chaos, they say delays with unloading containers from ports (especially Western USA) and additional delays with transport and unloading goods from the containers inland mean they are turning round one or two weeks slower than normal, so they need more units.
Full info here:
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/hapag-lloyd-shel...
john2443 said:
Talksteer said:
Also major issue is where do you get the water to operate the locks?
hidetheelephants said:
There is no water, the valley north of Eilat is drier than a mouthful of crackers, as is the Negev
The Dead Sea is 400m below sea level so would either need loads of locks to get down there and back up and it would gradually flood as all the lockfulls of water were let through, or fill it in and build a massive embankment using all the spoil from the tunnels!Talksteer said:
john2443 said:
Talksteer said:
Also major issue is where do you get the water to operate the locks?
hidetheelephants said:
There is no water, the valley north of Eilat is drier than a mouthful of crackers, as is the Negev
The Dead Sea is 400m below sea level so would either need loads of locks to get down there and back up and it would gradually flood as all the lockfulls of water were let through, or fill it in and build a massive embankment using all the spoil from the tunnels!hidetheelephants said:
Talksteer said:
john2443 said:
Talksteer said:
Also major issue is where do you get the water to operate the locks?
hidetheelephants said:
There is no water, the valley north of Eilat is drier than a mouthful of crackers, as is the Negev
The Dead Sea is 400m below sea level so would either need loads of locks to get down there and back up and it would gradually flood as all the lockfulls of water were let through, or fill it in and build a massive embankment using all the spoil from the tunnels!saaby93 said:
what about avoiding a water based canal and use some of that thunderbirds kit that moves whole buildings on dry land
That means either unloading the ship; all 20,000 containers, as per the railway that has already been proposed by the Israelis, or taking the ship on this transporter. Digging a sea level canal through the mountains of the Negev desert would be relatively easy in comparison to the latter!Even if the Israelis built the canal, they know the Egyptians only need to drop the price for using the Suez canal to stop them getting their investment back.
GliderRider said:
saaby93 said:
what about avoiding a water based canal and use some of that thunderbirds kit that moves whole buildings on dry land
That means either unloading the ship; all 20,000 containers, as per the railway that has already been proposed by the Israelis, or taking the ship on this transporter. Digging a sea level canal through the mountains of the Negev desert would be relatively easy in comparison to the latter!Even if the Israelis built the canal, they know the Egyptians only need to drop the price for using the Suez canal to stop them getting their investment back.
GliderRider said:
saaby93 said:
what about avoiding a water based canal and use some of that thunderbirds kit that moves whole buildings on dry land
That means either unloading the ship; all 20,000 containers, as per the railway that has already been proposed by the Israelis, or taking the ship on this transporter. Digging a sea level canal through the mountains of the Negev desert would be relatively easy in comparison to the latter!Even if the Israelis built the canal, they know the Egyptians only need to drop the price for using the Suez canal to stop them getting their investment back.
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