Tyb
Anon is right.
The super containers are relatively new. The majority of them being built in the last five years. With Evergreen owning a shit tonnof these new ships, strangely enough. Suez Canal was not planned for that kind of size. For example the Ever Given is 1300 ft long and the Canal at it's narrowest point is 984ft wide.
While Evergreen is a Taiwanese company the ships for the most part sail under panamanian flags. With a smattering of Liberia and Singapore. I wonder If this has to do with the Panama canal? Or something else?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_container_ships
https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/s/Suez_Canal.htm
Old (earlier today story) and fake news.
Everyone but Reuters is saying the ship is still stuck.
marinetraffic.com shows the ship still in the canal.
Don't know why Reuters won't pull this story.
Ever Given owned by Japanese firm Shoei Kisen KK
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/captain-enormous-224000-tonne-megaship-23791605
From 2017 Article-
Shoei Kisen Kaisha, the shipowning arm of Japanese yard Imabari Shipbuilding, is set to control the world’s third largest non-operating box fleet once its huge swathe of ships ordered deliver in the coming couple of years.
Data carried in the latest weekly report from Alphaliner shows Shoei Kisen has more ships on order than all the other non-operating owners combined and once it all delivers the company will leap from 13th to third in the rankings of non-operating owners with just China Shipping and Seaspan ahead of it.
As well as providing significant tonnage to Japan’s big three lines – MOL, K Line and NYK – Shoei Kisen also has long term charters to many other big names in container shipping including OOCL, APL and Yang Ming. Its most recent addition is also its largest – the MOL Truth, the first 20,000 teu class ship built on Japanese soil.
In addition to its container exposure, Shoei Kisen is a very sizeable player in dry bulk, tankers, car carriers and LNG. Excluding car carriers, the company’s fleet – plus orderbook – is worth $5.89bn, according to data from VesselsValue.
https://splash247.com/shoei-kisens-huge-orderbook-will-see-box-fleet-double-size-decade/