I'm sure I read on one of the news reports that the fees they would have paid to travel through the canal would be around $500,000. I guess it's costing the canal company a lot having no boats going through too - I'm sure they'll be working as fast as they can to get it open again.
The Suez Canal is currently not blocked
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I'm sure I read on one of the news reports that the fees they would have paid to travel through the canal would be around $500,000. I guess it's costing the canal company a lot having no boats going through too - I'm sure they'll be working as fast as they can to get it open again.
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I like the way BBC say "diggers". There's one single digger in all the photos i've seen. I know i know, you can't exactly tnt your way out.
Thought it was a misprint when I saw the Suez Canal makes up 14% of shipping traffic.
14% through a canal! What year is this[..]
It's a year in which there is a lot of shipping between Asia and the rest of the world. In either direction, your choices are to go all the way around Africa or go through the Suez canal. So even though it's very expensive to use the Suez canal it's cheaper than the alternative.
There's a similar situation with the Panama canal, with the alternative route there being to go all the way around south America.
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I jsut saw some quite hilarious claims on FB that Evergreen is owned by Ghislane Maxwell's father/husband and that the ship is used for child trafficking. Apparantly Hillary Clintons SS codename was Evergreen (not even sure what the SS is supposed to be for) and the russian navy have them trapped... Makes me wonder how bleeding stupid people actually are..
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I know right, some people don't even know that SS means Secret Service when used in relation to US Presidents and their families.
Secret Service I'm guessing. Apparently they have codenames for people they protect. So they can strike a dramatic pose and say something like, "The eagle is in flight!"
'E was getting a bit frisky with green spider, last I heard. Better hope brown starfish doesn't find out.
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That makes sense haha.
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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.
Well if you keep hitting it until it is little more than dust... problem solved.
Might destroy the canal, but explosions would be decent TV at least.
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people will argue about anything huh? a ship crashes somewhere on the planet and que 6 pages of people debating it on just the one forum...who's willing to search out the other forum discussions?
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Added bonus is the crater will make the canal wider. Its win win (the irony is I bet a couple of cruise missiles would be cheaper than what the shipping company will be paying for holding everyone up).
You're all thinking too small. What we should do is use nuclear bombs to "dig" another canal to bypass the blocked section!
There is precedent...sort of. The USA did plan to use nuclear bombs for rapid excavation and they did some experiments on it. The USSR had similar plans and took their experiments a little further by using nuclear bombs to excavate a reservoir. I'm not even joking. There were some wild plans for peaceful uses of nuclear bombs.
There is precedent...sort of. The USA did plan to use nuclear bombs for rapid excavation and they did some experiments on it. The USSR had similar plans and took their experiments a little further by using nuclear bombs to excavate a reservoir. I'm not even joking. There were some wild plans for peaceful uses of nuclear bombs.