By Thibaut calatayud
Published on 29 Mar 21 à 14:12
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For almost a week, it has paralyzed a good part of world trade … Tuesday March 23, 2021, the Ever-Given container transporter got stuck diagonally on the Suez Canal, in Egypt.
This passage is strategic for the economy of the planet since it makes transit 10% of world maritime trade, by making it possible to connect the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean, while avoiding having to bypass Africa.
A gigantic ship
So inevitably, when a ship of 400 meters long and over 200,000 tonnes totally obstructs a narrow canal like that of Suez, traffic jams form. TheFrance Media Agency indicates that 425 boats were stuck, Monday, March 29, at the ends and in the middle of the canal.
On Monday, the Canal Authority (SCA) announced that the boat had been handed over to 80% in the “right direction”. While waiting for the return to normal, some had fun creating a site to simulate the presence of Ever-Given anywhere in the world. And at Toulouse, the boat would not go unnoticed …
More than three times the Place du Capitole
This simulator, available on the website evergiven-everywhere.glitch.me allows to realize the size of this container carrier, much larger than the Place du Capitole.
–So huge, this boat would be difficult to navigate on the Garonne. But let’s say he can do it and that, like on the Suez Canal, the boat gets stuck between the two banks …
Slanting over the river, the Ever-Given would still take an important place between the Saint-Michel bridge and the Pont Neuf From toulouse. Fortunately, it is not tomorrow the day before that such a situation will be really visible in the Pink City.
–The incident will be very expensive
Given the configuration of the Garonne and its different bends, the presence of bridges… a boat like this one would not come and would not be able to venture there!
This is good news since resolving such an incident is very expensive. Egypt loses between 12 and 14 million dollars per day closure of the channel. Global trade could, for its part, register a loss between 6 and 10 billion dollars !
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