We're Gonna Need A Bigger River

"Mark - Sixpots None The Richer" (marklinde) 02/06/2016 at 12:30 • Filed to: Boatlopnik

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Presumably because of a damaged rudder the almost 400m long “CSCL Indian Ocean” ran aground and is now stuck on the Elbe river. Attempts to pull the ship back into the shipping channel haven’t been succesful so far.

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m2m, apex detective > Mark - Sixpots None The Richer 02/06/2016 at 12:57

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Ayy, that thing is huge .

( Sauce for map/screenshot)

At one point, they had 7 tugboats working on it. Nope, didn’t move a bit.

Tuesday could bring in some water, which might help with getting it back up.

If you’re curious, you can watch it not move .

The vessel’s ETA for DEHAM was 2016-02-03 13:00 ... hue hue .

For what it’s worth, the behemoth sitting duck had people taking pictures and watching the struggle go on. There’s lots of neat photographs of the ‘action’, complete with news bits:

http://www.tageblatt.de/lokales/aktuel…

http://www.tageblatt.de/bilder_galerie… (source of first image)

Wee, now we can look at it like a video game, too! See:

m2m, apex detective > Mark - Sixpots None The Richer 02/06/2016 at 13:09

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Just stumbled across a video showing the Indian Ocean ’s departure from Felixstowe in a gale, she had to be assisted by 4 tugs to get out.

Poor ship’s having a hard time, I guess.

Chasaboo > Mark - Sixpots None The Richer 02/06/2016 at 13:20

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Container ships crack me up. They seem cheap in the fact that they don’t enclose the cargo. They just stack the crap up all over the deck, almost to the point where you can no longer see the damn bridge. In violent weather, how many of those containers do they lose?

m2m, apex detective > Mark - Sixpots None The Richer 02/06/2016 at 13:21

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It must be nice having all those people with video drones around while you’re bummed out. Someone must have had the same though, though, ‘cause now there’s supposedly a no-fly area where the IO sits.

Trigger warning: terrible music!

Spoon II > m2m, apex detective 02/06/2016 at 14:42

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Might have to unload it a bit to actually get it out

Spoon II > Mark - Sixpots None The Richer 02/06/2016 at 14:43

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As far as running aground goes, that was a fairly happy ending.

Mark - Sixpots None The Richer > Chasaboo 02/06/2016 at 23:15

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Including catastrophic losses, during the 2011-2013 time frame the average annual loss was approximately 2,683 containers.

Source: http://gcaptain.com/how-many-shipp…

Because the number of containers is increasing they might be losing even more by now. This for example happened 2014:

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/21/wor…

Mark - Sixpots None The Richer > Spoon II 02/06/2016 at 23:18

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Still, the costs are amounting fast with every day the ship isn’t moving. And if it’s severly stuck and they might have to unload some of the containers the price tag of this fairly happy ending is going to be enormous.

Luckily the ship isn’t blocking the traffic on the river...

wafflesnfalafel > Mark - Sixpots None The Richer 02/18/2016 at 23:14

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damn - almost 2700 annually? I would have assumed maybe a couple hundred tops....

Mark - Sixpots None The Richer > wafflesnfalafel 02/19/2016 at 06:58

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Well, that’s an average including catastrophic losses. So when a big ship was hit by a powerful storm or even sank in that time frame the average seems to be high. But there are about 27.5m containers out there being shipped god knows how many million miles around the planet every year. So the actual loss isn’t significant in the bigger picture.