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28 Mar, 9 tweets, 7 min read
1/While @ever_given gets all the attention right now I thought it would be interesting to see what her 10 sisterships of the Golden class were up to.

Thanks to @MarineTraffic for the data.
2/Three of them are in the Far East right now on their schedules.

#EVERGOLDEN
#EVERGENTLE
#EVERGRADE
3_Two are in Europe.

#EVERGOVERN
#EVERGLORY
4/Two are enroute from Asia to Europe in the Malacca Strait.

#EVERGENIUS
#EVERGOODS
5/One is leaving northern Europe and heading south along the coast of Spain.

Will it turn into the Med and head toward the #Suez?

#EVERGIFTED
6/One has diverted from the #Suez and is heading around the Cape of Good Hope in the Indian Ocean enroute to Europe.

#EVERGREET
7/The tenth was heading southbound in the Suez when her sistership ran aground in the lower Canal. She has been anchored in the Great Bitter Lake, two-thirds of the way through the canal.

#EVERGLOBE
8/The 11th of the class is the most famous.

#EVERGIVEN

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Sal Mercogliano 🚢⚓🧭🐪🚒 Profile picture
28 Mar
1/For those looking for a more technical breakdown of #EVERGIVEN @ever_given, here is the data from her classifications society, the American Bureau of Shipping @ABSeagle
2/All ships receive a number from the International Maritime Organization @IMOHQ so you can identify against similar named ships.

She was delivered in under 3 years, in 2018.
3/She nearly 200,000 deadweight tons, that is how much she can carry in cargo. Gross tons is actually not weight, but volume with a gross ton equal to 40ft3. That equates to 8.8M ft3. She has a speed of 22.5 knots from a single prop.
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Sal Mercogliano 🚢⚓🧭🐪🚒 Profile picture
28 Mar
1/ This video from @RichardHammond series BIG, discusses a ship akin to #EVERGIVEN in the #SuezBLOCKED.

It is not long but gives an appreciation of the scope & scale of Ultra Large Container Vessels (ULCV).

2/ The ships are massive at nearly 400 meters/1,300 feet in length. They are nearly 40M/200FT wide and draw about 14.5M/47.5FT.
3/ These ships carry modular containers. The first container ship - SS Ideal X in 1956 carried 58 boxes. The newest can carry 24,000.

The leap in size has not been linear but exponential. As ships increase in length, beam, and depth, their volume is cubed, hence Ultra-Large.
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Sal Mercogliano 🚢⚓🧭🐪🚒 Profile picture
28 Mar
The latest from the ship manager for #EVERGIVEN in the #SuezBLOCKED

Efforts continue to remove bottom from the port bow.
11 tugs on scene.
Bottom cleared from around rudder.
Two larger tugs enroute.
They are still blaming wind.
Crew safe and working.
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Sal Mercogliano 🚢⚓🧭🐪🚒 Profile picture
27 Mar
What's Going on in the Suez - Part 4

We are joined by Master Salvor Nick Sloane from Costa Concordia fame for his assessment on the #EVERGIVEN and the situation in the #SUEZ (It is not good by the way!). He has decades of salvage experience & knowledge.

What's Going on in the Suez - Part 3

I discuss how the grounding took place on the morning of March 24, 2021 and the other vessels that were in the lower Suez Canal that day.

A future episode will discuss potential causes for the grounding.

What's Going on in the Suez - Part 2

Myself and @johnkonrad of @gCaptain delve into the details and situation facing the MV Ever Given grounded in the Suez Canal.

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Sal Mercogliano 🚢⚓🧭🐪🚒 Profile picture
27 Mar
The latest update on #EVERGIVEN in the #Suez. To quote @ever_stucc, it is still stuck.

Efforts to pull her off on Friday failed. The tides are peaking on Mar 31/Apr 1. Rates for tankers nearly doubled.

SMIT has 2 tugs set to arrive on Mar 28.

gcaptain.com/shipping-rates…
US and Turkey have offered support.

Blockage may cost trade between $6 to $10B per week.

Oil rose 3% with tankers diverting around Africa from the Atlantic.

Impact will hit European manufacturing and car part suppliers.
SMIT announced that a crane will arrive this weekend to start removing containers. Modern container cranes can move about 1 box a minute. This will be much slower on a ship that carry nearly 20,000.

2004 incident w/tanker took 3 days to clear.

gcaptain.com/smit-start-sue…
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Sal Mercogliano 🚢⚓🧭🐪🚒 Profile picture
26 Mar
The latest shows that the #EVERGIVEN sistership #evergreet has diverted from the Suez Canal, it is in transit from Asia to the Cape of Good Hope.
Shipping makes alternate Suez plans with removal of Evergreen boxship not a given

splash247.com/?p=138810 via @splash_247
Suez Canal traffic pre & post the Ever Given incident
This visual, created by our Data Team using #marinetraffic AIS data, shows all traffic in the area from 17 March until earlier this morning, highlighting the slow down following the Ever Given incident.
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