The Panama Canal is so clogged up that a shipping company paid $4 million to jump the line: report
The Panama Canal is so clogged up that a shipping company paid $4 million to jump the line: report
Japan's Eneos Group paid almost $4 million for expedited passage through the Panama Canal amid an unprecedented drought, Bloomberg reported.
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Ah, yes.
Yet another outcome of climate change that few thought about.
The canal uses fresh water from the lake in its locks, which has been affected by a long term drought...
"This will be the worst El Niño recorded in recent history," company administrator Ricaurte Vásquez Morales said, per the outlet.
So the number of ships allowed to transit is reducing Normally 36 per day, is expected to hit 18 in a couple of months if the drought continues.
I wonder how long it will take until it is cheaper to expend the extra fuel and time to go round cape horn than sit and wait in the line for the canal?
Cape Horn is also dangerous as fuck. If ships opt to go that route, I'd be willing to bet that a percentage of them don't make it.
I fucking love this scene.
I'm actually surprised to hear that in 2023. I'd think we'd have figured that out by now.
What percent don't make it typically?
The worst seas in the world aren't really something you can figure out. Yes, you can build ships to endure it, but when you've got the canal, you don't need to.
I'm sure most of the ships themselves don't have issues with it, but from what I've heard, shipping containers are mostly held down by gravity, so if they're really rocking and rolling, they're bound to lose a lot of cargo.
No, the containers all lock together, and lock to the ship.
Certain parts are more "structural" and get cross braces, extra tie-downs and stuff.
Gravity plays a huge part, and there will be a maximum amount of roll/list. But containers should not go anywhere.
When they do, it's normally because of incorrectly fitted (or missing) connectors, bad load balance, or because a heavy load inside a container shifted when it shouldn't. Probably a combination of these things.https://shippingcontainerlab.com/why-dont-shipping-containers-fall-off/
It would be hard to estimate, as most use panama these days. But winter weather is significantly worse, which coincides with when the Panama drought will be the worst...
Cape of Good Hope. Horn is the one at the southern end of South America. That said you're still right that it remains a dangerous route, even with all the advantages of modern shipbuilding and weather forecastingignore me I am apparently illiterateI'm pretty sure we're talking about going around South America if we're talking about the Panama Canal...
Fuck me I totally misread the title. My bad.
"You go around the horn, the way God intended!"
Poor little Bojack. Every scene with him as a child is just awful
They've done it before.
Climate change might open the Northwest Passage before the Cape is a profitable alternative