Thread: Lets See The Transport havn a Oops moment

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 beside the wind.
Photos of a 30 year old digger moving sand from around the bow of the ship tells part of the story.
You would think that part of the average transiting fee of $250k US would pay for some up keep.
19,000 vessels transited the Suez Canal last year x $250k = $4.75 billion, how much of that goes sideways into someone’s back pocket.

Originally Posted by 300winmag

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 beside the wind.
Photos of a 30 year old digger moving sand from around the bow of the ship tells part of the story.
You would think that part of the average transiting fee of $250k US would pay for some up keep.
19,000 vessels transited the Suez Canal last year x $250k = $4.75 billion, how much of that goes sideways into someone’s back pocket.

Yes quite a lot I would say. Apparently not leaving enough for contingency plans and equipment should this happen.

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....

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

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.

Starting to unload the Evergreen

Originally Posted by 300winmag

Starting to unload the Evergreen
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And there’s six more containers under that one!

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

Ouch!

Wonder how good their insurance is?

I think the cargo is valued at $1 billion

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.

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

Originally Posted by rugerman

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.

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.