{"id":58175,"date":"2021-03-28T10:37:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T14:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=58175"},"modified":"2021-03-29T06:44:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T10:44:56","slug":"just-like-the-bp-gulf-oil-spill-the-suez-canal-shutdown-was-designed-by-globalist-greenies-to-terminate-the-hydrocarbon-fuel-paradigm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=58175","title":{"rendered":"Just like the BP Gulf Oil Spill, the Suez Canal Shutdown was designed by globalist greenies to terminate the hydrocarbon fuel paradigm."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Egyptian President &#8220;Prepare For All Scenarios&#8221; To Refloat Megaship<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__2clki NodeBody_container__1M6aJ\">\n<p>Suez Canal salvage teams have allowed Ever Given&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/suez-crisis\">stern and rudder to move<\/a>\u00a0on Saturday night, but it remains unclear when the massive containership will be refloated.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1375920128186060800&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fmarkets%2Fegyptian-president-prepare-all-scenarios-refloat-megaship&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=e1ffbdb%3A1614796141937&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1375920128186060800\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-egypt-suezcanal-ship-idUSKBN2BK08V?taid=60607f06bd33910001906a2e&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter\">Reuters<\/a>\u00a0reports salvage teams were &#8220;alternating between dredging and tugging on Sunday to dislodge a massive container ship blocking the busy waterway, while two sources said efforts had been complicated by rock under the ship&#8217;s bow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_tablet__3QEBr Advert_mobile__1rlLc Advert_borderTop__2PX5m Advert_placement__1I4yb\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-03-27_7-47-34.jpg?itok=egFsk8sP\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-03-27_7-47-34.jpg?itok=egFsk8sP\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2021-03-27_7-47-34.jpg?itok=egFsk8sP\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"194\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"7f5756cc-b9d4-40ff-91ee-f17836d5bd37\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) released a statement that said the vessel had shifted 27,000 cubic meters of sand\u00a0around the vessel&#8217;s front hull. The ship remains wedged diagonally across a southern section of the canal, blocking one of the world&#8217;s most important shipping lanes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-extracted-i1616941880079232196=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">A Planet SkySat captured video of the ongoing efforts to dislodge the Ever Given from the Suez Canal after it ran aground late Tuesday, blocking all traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Video captured by SkySat on March 27, 2021.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vw9xPT1C6j\">pic.twitter.com\/vw9xPT1C6j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Planet (@planetlabs)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/planetlabs\/status\/1376167658308141060?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On Saturday night, tugboats were able to shift the vessel 17 meters to the north. In celebration, tugboats sounded their foghorns.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-2&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1375875968246628362&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fmarkets%2Fegyptian-president-prepare-all-scenarios-refloat-megaship&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=e1ffbdb%3A1614796141937&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1375875968246628362\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>On Sunday, Suez Canal Chief Lieutenant General Osama Rabei held a press conference in Port Said governorate to announce the latest developments.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_borderTop__2PX5m Advert_placement__1I4yb\"><\/div>\n<p>Rabei said since the vessel ran aground on Mar. 23, over 321 ships are waiting to transit the canal.<\/p>\n<p>Refinitiv marine traffic data shows the massive logjam.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-03-27_10-16-23_0.png?itok=B7HCm4-B\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-03-27_10-16-23_0.png?itok=B7HCm4-B\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2021-03-27_10-16-23_0.png?itok=B7HCm4-B\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"381\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"24ae38c2-30be-4148-874c-247b7e3d9a51\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aerial photos show the impressive buildup of ships waiting to transit the canal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-03-28_08-20-58.png?itok=BoFlwRzq\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-03-28_08-20-58.png?itok=BoFlwRzq\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2021-03-28_08-20-58.png?itok=BoFlwRzq\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"378\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"56330dd0-d598-45a9-9e1b-67ce71fc70d7\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-03-28_08-20-38.png?itok=LDoxjZga\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-03-28_08-20-38.png?itok=LDoxjZga\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2021-03-28_08-20-38.png?itok=LDoxjZga\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"402\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"75854763-e082-4dff-aa59-315f73a79e7d\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reiterating what Rabei said Saturday, he continued to say, &#8220;sand storm and the bad weather could not be the main cause of the incident, adding that a human or technical error could be the reason, but there will be an investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EgyptTodayMag\">Egypt Today Magazine<\/a>\u00a0reports Sunday that two massive tugboats arrived at the incident area to support the more than a dozen<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/suez-crisis\">\u00a0tugboats working<\/a>\u00a0to dislodge the container ship.<\/p>\n<p>Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi told SAC to be prepared for &#8220;plan C&#8221; of offloading the containers from the stranded vessel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/egypt%20prez.jpg?itok=ctSy5gq_\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/egypt%20prez.jpg?itok=ctSy5gq_\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/egypt%20prez.jpg?itok=ctSy5gq_\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"40085b05-0af6-4ac9-88e9-66a4e14c19dc\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The internet wins again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/funny_0.jpg?itok=S6BDh5Wi\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/funny_0.jpg?itok=S6BDh5Wi\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/funny_0.jpg?itok=S6BDh5Wi\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"e9c031bb-fc3e-4874-a0ea-aaf29630d2c4\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the worst-case scenario might play out if the ongoing dredging to refloat the ship assisted with tugboats and high tide doesn&#8217;t work, that is, as explained by the chairman, the possibility of lightening the vessel&#8217;s load. He hoped the salvage team wouldn&#8217;t have to come to that because, as JPMorgan&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/kolanovic-warns-risk-suez-ship-could-break\">\u00a0Marko Kolanovic<\/a>\u00a0told clients Friday,\u00a0<strong>unloading the ship could result in a &#8220;ship breaking.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>As Kolanovic puts it, &#8220;another interesting development of this week was the blocking of the Suez Canal. While we believe and hope the situation will get resolved shortly, there are some risks of the ship breaking.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While there have been positive signs with the vessel slightly moving this weekend, refloating attempts have yet to work. SCA sources told Reuters that rock structures had been found at the ship&#8217;s bow, complicating salvage efforts.<\/p>\n<p>As the blockage nears one week, shippers have rerouted vessels around the Cape of Good Hope, adding more than ten extra days to their journeys and extra fuel and labor costs.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/egyptian-president-prepare-all-scenarios-refloat-megaship\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/egyptian-president-prepare-all-scenarios-refloat-megaship<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"NodeContent_footer__2EL1s\"><\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian President &#8220;Prepare For All Scenarios&#8221; To Refloat Megaship<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}