Y’ALL THE WAIT TO FIX THE SUEZ CANAL IS SO LONG THAT EVERYONE IS JUST GOING THE FUCK AROUND THE ENTIRE CONTINENT OF AFRICA AGAIN
A ton of people in Cape Town are about to get unexpectedly rich
OH MY GOD THEY DID IT IT HAPPENED WE’RE BACK TO 1700′S SHIPPING ROUTES FOLKS
🎶You’d wish to God you’d ne’er been born🎵
Sorry folks, but that’s regular traffic. Ships haven’t started to make u-turns yet, and if they had, they wouldn’t be anywhere near the Cape at this point:
[ID: Commodity analysts Kpler said in a statement Thursday: “As delays continue, shippers will have to broach the unpalatable decision of whether to make a u-turn and head for the Cape of Good Hope or wait it out in the Red Sea and Mediterranean.“Currently, taking such a route is “unlikely,” Kpler said, given the extensive delays that would cause. Giving a sample route, the company said: “Suez to Amsterdam at 12 knots is just over 13 days via the canal, or 41 days via the Cape.” /ID]
Ahh, thank you for the good solid facts! Ships fandom is a wise and well-informed fandom.
I’m so so ssorry II didno’..t meaan, to bbloock the Sueez;; cAna..l an,d rrinag gllobaal .comMeerrc;e to maa ,,grindinng halltt iT was an aaccciidde;;nt I swear I’m s fuuckinng soo, sorry
the suez canal situation has SUCH an overwhelmingly 17776 vibe to it
this literally belongs in 17776/20020. this is jon bois’s big-stakes absurd humor made real
the massive scale of it all, the maps showing the effects, the gargantan consequences from something so absurdly stupid and juvenile as a dick and butt being drawn in the ocean by a cargo ship bigger than the empire state building that then gets wedged in a tight canal that 10% of world trade passes through and blocking the flow of traffic. this is literally it
