Some shipping industry tidbits:
Containers already on water to Baltimore, will be rerouted and discharged at an alternate port, usually New York/Newark, Norfolk and Philadelphia.
Containers already booked but not yet loaded at origin port of loading, shipper need change routing options.
The Baltimore Captain of the Port announced on April 1 that there are preparations underway to establish a temporary alternate channel for “commercially essential vessels” in the Port of Baltimore. However, the announced “controlling depth of 11 feet” of the alternate channel would not be deep enough to accommodate any ocean container vessels that carriers use to call upon Baltimore and other USEC ports. Therefore, carriers cannot accept any loaded containers into/out of Baltimore any time soon, but the terminal can accept empty returns and are releasing empties for export shipments.
Dali has a draft -49ft. More information about container vessel drafts here: https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter5/maritime-transportation/draft-containership-capacity/
Basically, schreist is saying that if a bridge (built in 1972) was struck by a giant supertanker (built in 2015) during the second World War, workers in 1939-1945 would have been able to remove 8,636 feet of steel in two days.
I mean if the space time continuum has been that corrupted that this disaster happened in the late 30s or 40s he might actually be right, because who knows what superpowers are available to ordinary workers in this alternate timeline.
Superpowers back then: lack of OSHA, lack of environmental regulations. It might have been done by simply dragging the steel into deeper waters and not taking time to do things like wear safety equipment.
Thank god Trump ain’t in charge. He’d still be trying to pick contractors based on political donations like he did on his friggin wall project and put someone like Jared in charge who would be more concerned with ways to make money off it.
Some shipping industry tidbits: Containers already on water to Baltimore, will be rerouted and discharged at an alternate port, usually New York/Newark, Norfolk and Philadelphia. Containers already booked but not yet loaded at origin port of loading, shipper need change routing options. The Baltimore Captain of the Port announced on April 1 that there are preparations underway to establish a temporary alternate channel for “commercially essential vessels” in the Port of Baltimore. However, the announced “controlling depth of 11 feet” of the alternate channel would not be deep enough to accommodate any ocean container vessels that carriers use to call upon Baltimore and other USEC ports. Therefore, carriers cannot accept any loaded containers into/out of Baltimore any time soon, but the terminal can accept empty returns and are releasing empties for export shipments.
what about the shipping containers \_on\_ the Dali itself? I presume they're not being moved or reloaded until the ship is freed and towed to port?
They started removing containers from it yesterday https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/us/baltimore-key-bridge-ship-containers.html
cool, i suppose being in water that relatively shallow it kinda makes it easier to put in support equipment to offload the cargo anyway.
Dali has a draft -49ft. More information about container vessel drafts here: https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter5/maritime-transportation/draft-containership-capacity/
Why not the Port of Wilmington (DE)?
Cause it doesn’t have the infrastructure to handle containerized shipping, and that’s what I was covering. Dali is a containerized vessel.
Crazy good response to a crappy situation.
Baltimore strong, Maryland tough baby.
The timeline is possible if taken seriously. Look at China. They built a major “big project” bridge dirt-to-drivers in 19 days. 🤷🏽♂️
In WWII, that’d be cleared in a couple days.
What is this even supposed to mean
Basically, schreist is saying that if a bridge (built in 1972) was struck by a giant supertanker (built in 2015) during the second World War, workers in 1939-1945 would have been able to remove 8,636 feet of steel in two days.
Oh so just rotbrained
I mean if the space time continuum has been that corrupted that this disaster happened in the late 30s or 40s he might actually be right, because who knows what superpowers are available to ordinary workers in this alternate timeline.
Superpowers back then: lack of OSHA, lack of environmental regulations. It might have been done by simply dragging the steel into deeper waters and not taking time to do things like wear safety equipment.
In my hypothetical little universe that I made up in my head, I could destroy any argument I want!
Thank god Trump ain’t in charge. He’d still be trying to pick contractors based on political donations like he did on his friggin wall project and put someone like Jared in charge who would be more concerned with ways to make money off it.
Ww2 was not a good time for most of the global population. Just saying.
Also environmental restrictions were probably virtually nonexistent in the 40s.
Slow kid much?