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I think the cargo is valued at $1 billion

Egypt have told the Ever Given owners to pay 1 Billion dollars in compensation or they don’t get there ship back.

Starting to unload the Evergreen
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Just checked the corruption index, Egypt is sitting at place # 117, well behind other more prominent shit holes.
The crew on the container ship are all Indians, they’ll go thru there paperwork with...

Want any work done, something fixed urgently, open briefcase and peel off some crisp US $100 bills.
Been there done that.

It’s going to really interesting how this plays out if the salvors can’t free this ship in the next few days.
Already the General in charge of the canal is saying that don’t discount other factors...

Chinese developers down the road, silly fcukers should have used a larger machine.

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Not Fletchers but starts with F

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Few trees to cut down for one of our major construction companies I guess.

I've been on a few ships in the past that have had whoopsies, some man made and others thru gear failure.
The best one was coming into Bombay Port, been working offshore for 2 months, no beer or...

Looks like a harmless corner, looks like the ones that came to grief missed there braking points. The crowd certainly got there moneys worth.

Last week in the Northern Territory, out the back of Bumfuck & beyond, chopper made two trips back to camp ferrying the stranded. Needs a whole new front end.
The Donkey's had the last laugh.
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I bet she had to change her knickers

Another Oops moment

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Truckloads, unbelievably the driver got a slap on the hand with a wet bus ticket and a $300 hundy fine.

That sign doesn't stop them, it cost me $69k or should I say the insurance company and the following year our premium doubled. Kaos at 9am on a weekday peak our traffic.
They have fitted large steel...

A few bucks here, at least it's not the Penrose Bridge.

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Coming thick and fast, another grounding, this time on another ship in Indonesia.
MV Western Islander, 115 feet long and 35 of us crewed her for 2 months at a time, a good little tub. Shit we went...

Not quite an Ooops moment but scary when a submarine surfaces next to us and two bods on top of the coning tower get on a loud hailer and tell you to bugger off.
Early 80's in Indonesia.
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Just been having a dung out and came across some old photo's of mine. Here's one going back to Dec 1981.
The Seismic survey ship I was working on hit an uncharted reef at 6 knots, water depth by...