I've seen one (albeit slightly smaller I'm sure) from one of those big shipping companies down in the Galveston Bay going to/from the Houston port. They are ridiculously massive. I'm not totally sure where those things dock down there, but I know most of the huge oil tankers come quite a bit inland on the shipping channel even.
I'll give these guys credit, moving something of that size around in the way they do and we almost never hear of incidents, it's impressive. I'd be interested to watch the traffic of one of these massive shipping ports just to see it all happen.
It says "EVERGREEN" on the side of the ship in humongous letters, but the tweets keep saying "EVER GIVEN," and even some of the tracking page screenshots say it. I'm confused, why is this?
I was looking at that story earlier today. It's a new breed of super cargo ship that is hugely massive. It ran aground then got sideways.
The size of this ship is impressive - https://www.rt.com/news/518965-ship-stuck-suez-canal/
We have cargo ships here, ice breakers and cruise ships, big boats. But this is something else.
I've seen one (albeit slightly smaller I'm sure) from one of those big shipping companies down in the Galveston Bay going to/from the Houston port. They are ridiculously massive. I'm not totally sure where those things dock down there, but I know most of the huge oil tankers come quite a bit inland on the shipping channel even.
I'll give these guys credit, moving something of that size around in the way they do and we almost never hear of incidents, it's impressive. I'd be interested to watch the traffic of one of these massive shipping ports just to see it all happen.
This is a mesmerizing real time global maritime livestream. Play with it, it's fun.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:33.2/centery:27.3/zoom:4
Also don't miss the part where is drew a dick with its course, because of course.
It says "EVERGREEN" on the side of the ship in humongous letters, but the tweets keep saying "EVER GIVEN," and even some of the tracking page screenshots say it. I'm confused, why is this?
"What's the name of the company?"
"11IlI11"
"... what's the name of the boat?"
"l1II11l"
"... Fuck you."
Given the captain's potential dick drawing with the course earlier in the day, I think there's a company wide passion for fucking with people.
Good catch, that would explain it.
You can't blame the Twitter guy - it's Vessel Finder that got it wrong.
Could that have been done intentionally?
Wouldn't surprise me. But I think it's just 2021 trying to outdo 2020.
Just nuke the whole thing from orbit
Ships stuff in the Suez Canal- uh- don't tell me- I've heard this one before-