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    Quote Originally Posted by Mauser308 View Post
    It's a bit of a "frog in the pot" situation. When the canal was built boats could turn around in it, what's happened is the shipping companies have built bigger and bigger boats to the current sizes which are oversize...
    AND accompanying that are the physical problems associated with the carriage of increased numbers of containers. Greater container carrying capacity means greater profits for the shipping companies, BUT the companies have not addressed the problems in restraining the increased number of containers on the carrying vessel.

    SO we have containers breaking away from the carrying vessel in increasing numbers as the numbers of containers able to be carried , increase.

    ALL to the risk of other's travelling the seas as not all of these containers which were lost overboard, sink. They are very airtight so unless the weight of the contents exceeds the flotation ability of the air trapped within the container, the container floats....usualy just below the surface of the water with no above surface profile.

    Effectively taking the place of WW 2 mines and fatal for any light vessel which may hit them.
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    If you guys have ever been to Egypt it’s backwards! They always bang on how they built the pyramids! Lol
    Yeah it’s one dirty overcrowded country with not a lot of honesty! Love that part in the movie Gallipoli where Snowy says “There all a bunch of thieves”!
    Don’t get me wrong the sites are amazing! I’ve been three times. But the people in general drive you round the bend. I found the south much better than the north people wise.
    There all after a bit of backsheesh (bribe money).
    Can’t see this being sorted anytime soon. But time will tell.

    Just to give you an idea on how bad they do repair jobs. I have a pic of a hieroglyphs that were being repaired at Kom Ombo. Thousands of years old!
    And here they where putting the blocks back in upside down in there defence guess they didn’t grow up with Lego

    Yep they will make a mess of this wind my ass bloody pilot went to sleep! They when someone else fix’s it they will claim the credit....
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    Want any work done, something fixed urgently, open briefcase and peel off some crisp US $100 bills.
    Been there done that.

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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 a fine tooth comb hoping to find false tickets etc.
    The skipper will be under immense pressure, if they free the ship they’ll probably do a complete crew change as mentally they will be fried.

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    Starting to unload the Evergreen
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    Quote Originally Posted by 300winmag View Post
    Starting to unload the Evergreen
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    And there’s six more containers under that one!
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    Egypt have told the Ever Given owners to pay 1 Billion dollars in compensation or they don’t get there ship back.

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    Ouch!
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    Wonder how good their insurance is?

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    I think the cargo is valued at $1 billion

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mauser308 View Post
    1.7 US I heard...
    When I think how much stuff came in those containers via the importers I used to deal with, that would not be difficult....24000 containers on the largest ships and the evergreen is one of them....Thats an average of $71k per container (about) and if you look at freight, a forty foot container used to be $150,000 worth of stock in the trade I was in , and it was not particularly expensive products....
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    Somewhere up in the hills around Nelson today we dropped a driveshaft...be along day tomorrow getting it sorted, supposed to be back in the North Island tomorrow.

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    It's just there by ya feet David
    Looks like a bit of a bastard of a corner to get stuck on. Did ya manage to drag it off the road with the digger

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    Quote Originally Posted by rugerman View Post
    It's just there by ya feet David
    Looks like a bit of a bastard of a corner to get stuck on. Did ya manage to drag it off the road with the digger
    Got it all the way to site with digger, that corner was the first or second one of about 6 to get around...will be unloaded in the morning and off to find a repair shop.

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    The local lads from the True Honey Co lost there trailer of hives up the Makakahi Valley the other night.They walked about 6km at 0100hrs too the nearest house where there was a landline,as cell coverage is shit. Pic after trailer was put back on the road.
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