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2021-03-28 Economy

Guy De Boer: A general explication of the mess in the Suez Canal

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Posted by badanov 2021-03-28 05:42|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 I had no idea. Thank you, badanov.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-03-28 08:27|| 2021-03-28 08:27|| Front Page Top

#2 On smaller scale when our design proposal to Exxon included a double bottom for the two ship tanker contract (Exxon Valdez and Exxon Long Beach) Exxon said the cost was to much, and went with the single bottom hull design instead.

(We had built several double bottom tanker ships called the "San Clemente Class" before double bottoms were required}.

Posted by crazyhorse 2021-03-28 10:35|| 2021-03-28 10:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Excellent summation of both the current Suez mess and world trade. As an aside, yet another validation of the critical importance of hemispheric supply chains not utterly vulnerable to interdiction or closure. Every basic component of the national economy needs to be on this side of our ocean borders. Preferable even is in the Northern Hemisphere. To be vulnerable to interdiction of any basic commodity needs as a nation is a complete failure of national political policy and leadership. Now look at the past 50 years and see how poorly served we have been by all of fhem.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-03-28 13:36|| 2021-03-28 13:36|| Front Page Top

#4 More from De Boar

Posted by badanov 2021-03-28 16:15|| 2021-03-28 16:15|| Front Page Top

#5 So a fleet of Iranian fast boats, loaded to the gunnels like the USS Cole bombers, can shutdown world trade for a lifetime?

Posted by Albert Dribble9133 2021-03-28 17:13|| 2021-03-28 17:13|| Front Page Top

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