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Old 3rd May 2021, 19:09
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She`s not going anywhere `till the ransom is paid.
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Old 4th May 2021, 00:31
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With both the Persians and the Egyptians at it I suppose Sharia law's definition of 'negotiation' would be classed here as 'demanding money with menaces'.
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Old 10th May 2021, 11:48
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It looks as though the Egyptians may have blinked first as they have reduced the ransom by $300 million, only time will tell. Only asking $600 million now.
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Old 5th July 2021, 11:19
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The giant Ever Given boxship will finally leave Egypt on Wednesday 106 days after it entered the Suez Canal on a fateful transit.

With shipowner Shoei Kisen and the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) coming to a compensation agreement the ship, carrying more than 18,000 boxes, will likely head from the Great Bitter Lake, where it has been under arrest since April, to Rotterdam.

The ship was responsible for this year’s most high profile accident when it became lodged across the canal in high winds for six days at the end of March. Egyptian authorities and the Japanese shipowner have been negotiating a compensation package for its release ever since with the SCA initially demanding $916m, something it has since scaled back. The actual final figure has yet to be revealed.

The SCA said yesterday it would hold a ceremony to mark the ship’s departure on Wednesday.
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Old 5th July 2021, 13:34
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Plymouth University runs a sophisticated cyber security unit. In this years AGM presentations for the IMarEST a professor there reported that they were satisfied that, had they wanted to, they could have brought the grounding about deliberately. I trust their students are well vetted.

I would like to say that the risk is as ephemeral as that of Y2K but I am sure it isn't. I would also like to think that had I survived in work to 'do' another new building then that vessel would have been immune by dint of absence and of airgapping - both from malice and from systems failures - I am equally sure much gadgetry would be forced on me that could not meet those criteria and so I would have to go back to school before thinking of making that claim now.
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Old 7th July 2021, 12:14
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Ever Given underway & heading North in Suez Canal.
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Old 7th July 2021, 13:26
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A few boxes of frozen prawns probably past their Best Before date. That is if the crew haven't scoffed them or the locals stole them. The other 17996 boxes are filled with cheap tat destined for Primark/Pennys and run-up in the sweatshops of Vietnam and Burma.
Being very self-righteous I buy my skiddies in Marks or Lyle&Scotts.
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Old 7th July 2021, 18:50
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Our risk there is not Cyber then but fibre (especially if taken with porter).
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EVER GIVEN departed Port Said Anchorage about 08:20GMT, Monday 12th July.
No idea why she was there a few days, one may wonder if the bunkers were "redistributed" in the bitter lakes and no one had checked.
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Old 12th July 2021, 22:26
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EVER GIVEN departed Port Said Anchorage about 08:20GMT, Monday 12th July.
No idea why she was there a few days, one may wonder if the bunkers were "redistributed" in the bitter lakes and no one had checked.
I read somewhere that she was scheduled to undertake a diving survey once clear of the canal.

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Old 12th July 2021, 23:26
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Heading for Rotterdam
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She is to the east of Sicily steaming (!) at 0.6 kn this morning, any info welcome.
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Old 16th July 2021, 09:31
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At 08.10 UTC; 223 degrees, 0.9 kts
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Old 16th July 2021, 11:00
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Current status is 'stopped' but track looks more like 'drifting'.
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Old 16th July 2021, 13:38
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Now underway again and appears to be heading back to planned course.
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Old 16th July 2021, 15:12
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Very curious track she has left, but up to 7+ knots now. Get the feeling all is not as it should be with her.
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Old 17th July 2021, 08:47
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Stopped again, still loitering.
Perhaps she is waiting for a berth, Catania maybe?
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Old 17th July 2021, 08:49
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Contaminated fuel maybe, be interesting to see how the day unfolds for her.
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Old 17th July 2021, 10:25
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Did she make water in the Bitter Lakes?
Did she buy water in the Bitter Lakes or Port Said?
Is there a touch of Gippo Tum on board?
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Old 17th July 2021, 11:02
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I don't know but imagine it is more the logistic planning of the disposal and changed ownership of her cargo. With a few parcels of crude, not a major exercise (we have probably all sailed on tankers where the cargo ownership has changed on the voyage). Surely several orders of magnitude more onerous with possibly 20000 'parcels'.

Gippo tummy? How, indeed, would one treat an outbreak in these days where brandy, port or even Hibernian bothiejuice is prohibited. Is this, perhaps, how the word pandemic was coined.
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Old 17th July 2021, 11:34
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Longer haul than expected to Rotterdam then.
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Old 17th July 2021, 11:58
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That would be my guess. No point in her arriving until the discharge is planned. Not that ruined fuel pumps and overloaded deshitting plant are not also possibilities.
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Old 17th July 2021, 18:23
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Lot of drifting still going on, not making any headway at all.
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Old 18th July 2021, 09:33
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The mystery continues this morning, still drifting.
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Old 18th July 2021, 10:37
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Perhaps you were on the better track. There is a report ('Splash' by Adis Adjin) implying that she has a condition of class/flag limiting her speed. Rudder or shaft alignment concerns/certainties?
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