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The Ever Given Ship disaster of Suez Canal: How size, geography and economy caused the disaster
The famous Suez Canal is an artificially built water canal built for world trade in the middle of the 18th century connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. The Ever Given is a large container ship, which was passing through the Suez Canal on its way to Rotterdam, Netherlands from Tanjung Pelepas, Malaysia wherein it became stuck and blocked the canal. The ship ended wedged almost between the two banks of the canal. What caused the disaster is pending investigation whether it was due to some adverse weather conditions, human error, or purposeful human sabotage for some ulterior motives.
However, it had the perfect recipe for disaster remembering the Murphy’s Law that is typically stated as: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong”. It is disappointing to note that human kind always awakens to details until a disaster happens. Only time will tell whether this will be the last disaster of its kind as there are other canals of similar possibilities.
Size:
The ship is gigantic. Ever Given has a gross tonnage of 220,940 and deadweight tonnage of 199,629 tons. Here deadweight tonnage is a measure of how much weight a ship can carry. It is the sum of the weights of cargo, fuel, passengers, crew and others. The length and width of…