WMDQ

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:400623/mmsi:338418000/imo:9332999/vessel:MAERSK_DENVER

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:400623/zoom:10

>>73800

WMDQ

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:400623/mmsi:338418000/imo:9332999/vessel:MAERSK_DENVER

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:400623/zoom:10

>>73802

english.ahram.org.eg

UPDATED: Maersk estimates 3-6 days for stranded ships to pass Suez Canal once Ever Given refloats

Egypt

Shipping giant Maersk said according to its estimations it would take 3-6 days for stranded ships and vessels to pass the Suez Canal once the ship, ‘Ever Given’, that has been blocking the canal for 6 days now, refloated.

“Once the canal is reopened, convoys would aim to run continuously, we would expect that it would take 3-6 days for the complete queue to pass, conditional to safety and other operational circumstances,” Maersk said in a statement issued on Sunday

“While ETAs are jeopardised as salvage efforts continue, it is too early to indicate the total delay of our vessels.”

As more vessels either reach the blockage or are redirected, this is an estimate and is subject to change, the statement added.

The company stated that it had 22 vessels currently waiting in the Suez Canal, which is currently blocked by the Ever Given, which has been wedged diagonally across its waterway since Tuesday

Maersk shared a planned schedule for their vessels stuck in the Suez Canal and those given orders to redirect to go to the Cape of Good hope.

15 vessels were redirected to the Cape of Good Hope the company said, as the delay of sailing around the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa was deemed equal to the current delay of sailing through the Suez and queuing.

“We do not expect to redirect any further ships during the weekend based on this analysis. New calculations on redirecting additional vessels will be made on Monday, considering the weekends’ salvage attempts.”

The 400-metre-long, 59-metre-wide Ever Given, which was coming from China, veered off course and ran aground as it was traversing the international trade route on Tuesday morning.

https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/407953.aspx

>>73800, >>73802

MAERSK update for March 28, 2021

Update 8

The Suez Canal passage continues to be blocked in both directions. Whilst efforts continue to dislodge the container ship operated by Evergreen Marine, numbers show that over 300 ships are now waiting at anchorage to pass through the canal. Currently Maersk and partners have three vessels stuck in the canal and 27 vessels waiting to enter the canal, with two more expected to reach the blockage today. We have until now redirected 15 vessels around the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa. Watch this video with the head of our global execution centre where he talks about some of the factors that play into these mitigation decisions.

https://www.maersk.com/news/articles/2021/03/24/vessel-blockage-in-the-suez-canal

>>73819

Who protects 15 vessels attempting to travel around the Cape of Good Hope?

>>73821

Yes, but anon read instructions on plane call signs before thought about boats…plumbing should have cued. more like deckhandfag kek. Boats and planes are the only thing solid to follow now.

>>73800, >>73802, >>73821

It looks like Maersk is used to playing hardball

Reminder

==Maersk: Springing back from a catastrophic cyber-attack

Rae Ritchie — August 2019

It’s June 27, 2017. Adam Banks has just returned from honeymoon and is back in his role as chief technology and information officer of Maersk, the Danish transport and logistics giant, best known for its shipping containers.

Without warning, Banks finds himself in the position that no IT leader — indeed no executive — ever wishes to encounter: facing a serious malware attack that compromises most of the company’s systems and applications while wiping out its access to almost all of its data.

Two years on, Banks is willing to outline the scale of the destruction he encountered as what later become known as the NotPetya malware took hold and the company’s operations ground to a halt. “All end-user devices, including 49,000 laptops and print capability, were destroyed,” he says. “All of our 1,200 applications were inaccessible and approximately 1,000 were destroyed. Data was preserved on back-ups but the applications themselves couldn’t be restored from those as they would immediately have been re-infected. Around 3,500 of our 6,200 servers were destroyed — and again they couldn’t be reinstalled.”

https://www.i-cio.com/management/insight/item/maersk-springing-back-from-a-catastrophic-cyber-attack

>>73800, >>73802

>>73819

Reminder

earthobservatory.nasa.gov

The Treacherous and Productive Seas of Southern Africa

Mariners have long considered the waters off Africa’s southern tip to be treacherous. After decades of failed attempts to navigate around the continent, Portuguese explorers took to calling one of its southerly promontories the Cape of Storms. (It was later renamed the Cape of Good Hope.) Cape Agulhas, Africa’s southernmost point, is Portuguese for Cape of Needles. Historians think the name may be a reference to the needle-like rock formations and reefs along its coast.

The convergence of two ocean currents—one warm and one cold—in the shallow waters of Agulhas Bank produces turbulent and unpredictable waters. Warm water arrives from the east on the fast-moving Agulhas Current, which flows along the east coast of Africa. Meanwhile, the cooler, slower Benguela Current flows north along Africa’s southwestern coast. That means navigating around the tip of South Africa requires mariners to sail against ocean currents on both sides of the continent.

Eventually, they learned to stay well out to sea as they rounded the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Agulhas, but not before failed attempts had littered the area’s reefs with wrecked ships. Even in modern times, shipwrecks are relatively common in the turbulent water of Agulhas Bank, where colliding currents regularly spin off rogue waves, eddies, and meanders.

The instability and churning does have one benefit. As water masses stir the ocean, they draw nutrients up from the deep, fertilizing surface waters to create blooms of microscopic, plant-like organisms (phytoplankton) in the open ocean. The phytoplankton feed a robust chain of marine life that makes Agulhas Bank one of the richest fishing grounds in southern Africa.

The top image of Cape Agulhas was acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 on May 25, 2016. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on Suomi NPP acquired the second image of southern Africa on January 4, 2017. The light blue swirl to the east of Cape Agulhas is a phytoplankton bloom in an area of cool, upwelling water.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and VIIRS data from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership. Suomi NPP is the result of a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Department of Defense.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/89535/the-treacherous-and-productive-seas-of-southern-africa

>>>73800, >>73802, >>>73819

>>73849

Reminder

businessinsider.com

Maersk Hires Tanzanian Mercenary Warship As Pirate Situation Becomes 'Critical'

Vincent Fernando

African Pirates MercenariesAnarchy off the coast of Africa has become profitable not just for pirates, but for idle local navies as well.

More evidence of a growing global private defense industry:

Hellenic Shipping News: Danish shipper A.P. Moller Maersk has hired out soldiers and a warship from Tanzania to protect its fleet in pirate-ridden waters off the coast of Africa, and now other shippers are expected to follow suit.

Maersk hired the warship through former special forces soldiers working for firm Guardian GBS security in December 2008. The ship was charged with protecting the Brigit Maersk tanker from pirates. It is unknown how much the shipping company paid for the service. ‘The waters east of Africa are a grey zone because developing countries don’t have resources to fight pirates. It’s a temporary solution that a shipper has hired a warship from another country, but there’s no alternative,’ said Jan Fritz Hansen, vice-president of the Danish Shipowners’ Association. Steffen Jacobsen, technical director at Maersk Tankers, said the company checked first to make sure the move was legal.

‘That’s why we chose it as an alternative solution to a very critical situation,’ he said.

https://www.businessinsider.com/maersk-hires-mercenary-warship-to-defend-its-fleet-2010-1

>>73849

Reminder

United States-Hong Kong International Shipping Agreement suspended or terminated

KPMG (Swiss cooperative) United States

August 20, 2020

The U.S. Department of State yesterday informed the Hong Kong authorities that the United States-Hong Kong International Shipping Agreement (Shipping Agreement) has been suspended or terminated—the exact treatment is not yet clear.

The State Department made its announcement pursuant to Executive Order 13936 (July 14, 2020), which reflects growing tensions between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) regarding the PRC’s rule over Hong Kong.

United States-Hong Kong International Shipping Agreement suspended

The Secretary of State prior to 2020 concluded in each of the Section 301 Reports that Hong Kong maintained a sufficient degree of autonomy to justify continued treatment under the General Policy Rule, although the 2019 Section 301 Report noted that the degree of Hong Kong’s autonomy had been “diminished.”[12] No president has exercised authority under Section 202(a) of the Hong Kong Policy Act to suspend the application the General Policy Rule until July 14, 2020, when President Trump issued Executive Order 13936 suspending the General Policy Rule for certain purposes. The executive order was issued in response to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s 2020 Section 301 Report (issued on May 28, 2020) in which Mr. Pompeo made a section 205 certification stating that “I can no longer certify that Hong Kong continues to warrant [special] treatment.”[13]

Section 3(j) of Executive Order 13936 states in pertinent part that:

Within 15 days of this order, the heads of agencies shall commence all appropriate actions to further the purposes of this order consistent with applicable law, including to … give notice of intent to terminate the agreement for the reciprocal exemption with respect to taxes on income from the international operation of ships effected by the Exchange of Notes Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of Hong Kong (TIAS 11892)[.][14]

https://home.kpmg/us/en/home/insights/2020/08/tnf-united-states-hong-kong-international-shipping-agreement-suspended-or-terminated.html