Although Egyptian officials immediately sent a number of tugboats, and urgently sent strange hands to force open the canal embankment where the bow of the Chang Chi was stuck, but until the morning of the 24th, the Chang Chi was still stuck in the river, forcing the Suez Canal to be paralyzed in the north-south direction. The related news once became a popular joke in the global community network with the narrative of “three treasures of shipping”; but the other side could not laugh out of it, not only the “cargo ship line” that could not move on the blocked canal, but also the east-west “maritime transportation” of more than 10 million barrels of Crude Oil, accounting for 10% of the global oil transportation volume. The east-west “sea oil” trade, which accounts for 10% of the world’s seaborne oil deliveries, is severely paralyzed as a result.
The Evergreen freighter “Chang Chi” touched down on its bow due to an unspecified accident, and its 400-meter-long hull became stuck across the Suez Canal in a north-south direction.
The Panama-registered container ship “Chang Chi” is one of the largest cargo ships under Evergreen Marine Corp. of Taiwan. After departing from Taipei Port on March 5, it first made a brief stop at Yantai Port in Shandong Province, China, and Tanjung Parapath Port in Malaysia, and then headed west to cross the Suez Canal all the way to the north, via the Mediterranean Sea and the west coast of the Atlantic Ocean. The voyage will arrive at the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the destination of this voyage.
10 kilometers into the canal, the head hit the land and got stuck.
The long-chaired ship, which had a smooth voyage, arrived at the Red Sea entrance to the south of the Suez Canal in Egypt on March 22, and lingered outside the port of Suez in accordance with the order of application for the “sea queue” until early in the morning of March 23, when the long-chaired ship, whose number it was, sailed into the Suez Canal. Who knows that just after 10 kilometers into the canal, the Chang Chi in the southern end of the canal in the Ma’diyah district (Ma’diyah) bow hit the land, the hull of the ship struck completely stuck in the two-way channel.
The Financial Times said that the reason why the Longcian paralyzed the Suez Canal, suspected to be the result of unexplained grounding.
“But because the Egyptian official unit ‘Suez Canal Authority’ is directly off duty, not responding or answering the phone… So nearly 24 hours after the incident, the outside world is still unclear why the Changci ship will be paralyzed in the canal? Was it a power problem, or was it a problem with the extrication method, and why did the Longchamp get stuck in the canal in an unbelievable way?”
(from vesselfinder Live)
The news of the Suez Canal blockage did not attract international media attention at first, until the Maersk Denver, a Danish Maersk cargo ship, was followed by the Maersk, with American seaman Julianne Conner on board. Julianne Cona, an American seaman on board, took a picture of the Chang Chi’s predicament and uploaded it to the social network, and the whole incident quickly became a hot topic on the global social network because of the exaggerated and surreal scene.
The “shipping tragedy” was laughed at by netizens from all over the world
The news that the Suez Canal was paralyzed by the accident soon turned into the “Shipping Trillium Tragedy” that netizens from all over the world laughed at, and all opinions were extremely absurd and unbelievable that the lifeline of the global economy was unbelievably blocked. Although the subsequent cause of the accident and the strain process are still to be investigated, from the known preliminary information, there is a high chance that the Chang Chi was just a “bad luck accident”.
After the freighter paralyzed the canal, there are more than 10 freighters behind the Chang Chi also trapped due to “blocking the ship”, and the entrance of the Mediterranean Sea from the north to the south, and the entrance of the Red Sea from the south to the north, so the two lines are paralyzed, and there is a “sea traffic jam” of more than 100 freighters. How long will it take to clear the accident? How to exclude? Also become international confusion, Eurasia and Africa sea traffic chaos of a big mess.
“The Suez Canal accident blocked, not only affect the delivery of international logistics, but also will cause immediate and direct negative impact on international oil prices.” The Financial Times said: the Suez Canal’s shuttle throughput, on average, is about 50 ships per day (the total for the year 2020 is more than 19,000), a significant part of which are the “oil tankers” that travel between the East and West – they They include not only the oversized tankers carrying oil from the Persian Gulf to Europe and North America, but also oil products sold from Russia to Asia.
The accident could not be quickly ruled out to impact international oil prices
The newspaper said that within 24 hours of the Long Chi paralyzing the Suez Canal, the global oil market was affected by 10 million barrels of crude oil just from the energy shipments stuck at both ends of the Suez Canal; if the accident cannot be quickly ruled out, the negative impact on international oil prices and the economy may continue to fall.
Local media Cairo24 news quoted the Suez Canal Authority as reporting that it may be necessary to remove a large amount of silt around the Chang Chi to remove the grounding, so it may take two or three days to move the ship. The oil refining industry, oil traders and oil producers, who have already had a headache due to the New crown outbreak, now have an even bigger headache.
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