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Mar 24, 2021 ∞

Container Ship Queue

Having the Ever Given, a massive container ship, stuck in the Suez Canal and halting all normal activity through the canal is a familiar problem to any technologist that has dealt with queue problems. Look at the real-time vessel map and all the ships stuck waiting. 🚢

They normally pass 50 ships a day through the canal. With so many backed up, it will be a few days before things get back to normal. 😬

Map showing the Ever Given container ship stopped in the Suez Canal near Suez, Egypt, with dozens of vessels clustered and waiting at both ends of the canal. Marine traffic map near Suez showing dozens of cargo vessels clustered in the Gulf of Suez with the Ever Given marked near the canal entrance.

These pictures tell the story well.

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