{"id":650,"date":"2021-03-29T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimejournal.nfdtesting.uk\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/2021\/03\/29\/stuck-suez-ship-back-on-track\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:15:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:15:35","slug":"stuck-suez-ship-back-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/2021\/03\/29\/stuck-suez-ship-back-on-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuck Suez ship back on track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) announced the 20,000 TEU Evergreen-operated <em>Ever Given<\/em> container ship has been successfully refloated on 29 March, six days after getting stuck.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Don Cockrill, maritime pilotage consultant, has stressed the Suez Canal width is a key factor in the Ever Given getting stuck. \u201cAt its surface the canal is about 313 m wide, however its construction profile means that the sloping sides give a width of about 225m at 11 metres draft, decreasing to about 121 m bottom width. Thus at 400m such ships are significantly longer than the navigable width of the canal waterway,\u201d he pointed out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Slow speed required<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The usual transit speed for a ship in the canal is about 8 knots. Cockrill added that \u201crelatively slow speeds are required combined with maintaining a central track within the canal cross-section in order to minimise and maintain a balance of the hydrodynamic forces acting on the sides and bottom of the hull\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Wind and tidal currents must also be considered, said Cockrill. \u201cThe estimated lateral surface area of a loaded ULCC such as Ever Given is about 16,000sqm. A 30-kt. wind such as that which has been reported at the time of the grounding if on the beam will generate a force on the ship side of about 300 mt. Additionally, there is the tidal current to consider. Even a low current of 0.5 knot will impart a force on a ULCC at a similar draft of 75mt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActing in unison, a combined external lateral force on the vessel of about 375 tons (possibly more) is conceivable under the worst conditions. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>The vessel will be moved to the Great Bitter Lake in the Canal for inspection, to determine whether it can resume its scheduled service explained Evergreen.<\/p>\n<p>By Rebecca Jeffrey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ship traffic has resumed in the Suez Canal following the refloating of a stuck mega vessel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-key-deals"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}