Container ship sinking in Channel

Well, that makes my Salcombe trip to be looking a bit hairy, if they have really sunk !! Tis right on the rhumb line.

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Is 62,277 GRT large, small or in between as far as ships go? Perhaps one of our resident shipping experts can let me know, Mirelle?
 
I know it was Steve that started it ... but ...

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Not quite so simple. If we did not import so many goods their weighting would fall in the rpi. As many of these imported goods are going down the service sector - restauants, schools, tradesmen etc - weighting would rise pushing inflation up more so higher interest rates etc................ As to how this bubble economy will end God only knows.

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What has global economy got to do with poor sods out there in that shite weather with a ship sinking etc.

Strewth ...........
 
Pretty big, according to bloomberg it is (was) carrying 2400 containers!, other reports say 75! Perhaps 75 with dangerous chemicals.

As to the idea that it carries 2400 containers, that is not impossible, based on tonnage calculated at 100 cubic feet of cargo capacity per ton. A standard 40 foot container at 40 x 8 x 8 feet has a volume of 2560 cubic feet, or 25.6 tons. 2400 such containers equate to 61,440 tons. I think that if this is correct it is bigger than a "Panamax", i.e. the largest size that will fit the Panama canal locks.

The true facts can be found by anyone with access to a copy of Lloyds Index.
 
Thanks, Brendan. That sounds much more likely in the conditions than the ship being "holed". "Accurate press report" seems to be a contradiction.
 
I think the jury is still out on this one. This one report is based on a telephone interview with the co-ordinating french coastguard spokesman, so you would hope accurate, but every other report is still saying holed on Starboard.

Guess we'll know more when they get the salvage team onboard
 
Channel 4 news showed a film taken during daylight hours, which showed that the ship had broken in half, One half still afloat (then) with a very large number of containers still on board. No sign of the other (bow?) half. Plenty of potential for a lot of spilled containers in the channel.
Edit, I am assuming it was not just archive film of another ship, but it was introduced as a report on today's storms.
 
having seen the tv news report I am astounded this large vessel was abandoned in favour of a liferaft/lifeboat

I recommend an enquiry is made into why this british vessel was abandoned in favour of emergency craft, why this british vessel was seemingly so poorly thought of by the captain it was safer to abandon, in fact why this british vessel was manned by foreigners who seem to be totally incapable of proper emergency marine management

I am spitting feathers at the total collapse of British standards on British ships .......... its a disgrace to us all
 
Re: Nothing of the \"du jour\" about it......

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But it isn't economics that are the priority here, it's what their manufacturing structure and power source is doing to the atmosphere and (probably/possibly) the future climate.

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It's not doing anything special, really.
Pretty much the same we already did decades ago, I'm afraid.
We are not in a position to blame them for learning.
 
It must have a very broad transom, I thought I was looking at half a ship! If it is still afloat tomorrow we will know that the crew abandoned ship too soon.
 
There are 4 pictures of the ship on the following site. Click on containerships on the left hand side and then scroll down the blue print to MSC Napoli
http://dkships.de/
I thought the picture I saw on the news was of a red ship, I will look again on the Ten O'clock News in a few minutes.
 
almost certainly stock footage of a general container ship. Unless the footage was taken from one of rescue helicopters, I doubt they'd be hiring camera helicopters to go out in those conditions
 
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