Monday, March 29, 2021

The Mess in the Suez Canal

So, a freak Egyptian sandstorm has put a serious kink in the international supply chain by wedging a quarter mile long super tanker crossways in the Suez Canal!! Engineers from all over the world are scrambling to figure out how to get the 220,000 ton Ever Given container ship un-stuck. Meanwhile, The Suez Canal Authority has so far lost 95 million dollars in revenue as 350 ships lay still in line behind all the mess...



Progress has been painstakingly slow and expensive. What this process needs is some good old fashioned American Ingenuity:



...I’ll let myself out.







1 comment:

  1. Any engineer who would build a canal so narrow a single ship can touch both sides should be hit upside his head with his slide rule.

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