The Suez Canal is currently not blocked

Apparently she's 219,000t and is carrying 20,000 TEUs. That might take some shifting if the inertia of such mass has caused it to embed itself in the banks.
 
Rroff said:
Probably what the captain was doing...

On another note interestingly the kind of tactics which could proceed armed conflict - jamming up supply/logistic lines before commencement of hostilities.
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Many, many years ago I started writing a short story where this was the case. Only in that instance it was Shayetet 13 using limpets to scuttle large ships in the canal.
 
StriderX said:
Would it not have been cheaper to have just cruise missile'd the ship and figure out liability later?
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Yes, because hitting a fully laden 220,000t ship with a cruise missile will magically make it disappear in a puff of smoke and will most definitely not turn a difficult clean-up operation into an absolute ******* nightmare of one.
 
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