Is this only for P & O tankers or for other company’s tankers as well? Curious because why would there be regulations for only one shipping company and not others?
Simple - it was an in-house rule.
In-house rule at P&O? That would work to keep the P&O ships behaving but what rule kept the bulk carriers away from the P&O ships?
Zeus won! a man, a plan, a canal - Panama, now Suez!
Stealing.
What do you mean by that?
Given that P&O never ran many bulkers or tankers, seems like a rule that wouldn’t have got much use. The odds of one meeting another would be low. Further, except navigationally, for them to do this would make no sense from the point of view of avoiding “bank effect” - which is what @Machine_Elf was talking about - since that effect does not occur in deep water.
I mean I’m going to use it. (And disclose that I stole it, so no one thinks I made it up.)
Actually bank effect seldom results in serious casualties. It only occurs in areas of shallow water. It usually just causes very low angle collisions, and groundings, in sheltered waters. Canals, channels etc.
Ah, OK - I thought maybe someone else had already done it and you thought I was copying (I mean, obviously the middle part isn’t mine, and the end parts aren’t exactly magnificent)
So much for that idea.
I thought they were! 
The exclamation mark doesn’t work, but pretty damn clever all the same.
Ground tackle is used to refloat vessels. So your idea isn’t so silly. Parbuckling is a technique for rolling vessels back upright which obviously is necessary in this particular case.
I suspect they will free this vessel without needing to use ground tackle but I also think that it’s an option that will be considered.
Punctuation, spaces and capitals are usually ignored in palindromes (the original ‘A man, a plan…’ would otherwise be: A man, a plan, a c a ,nalp a ,nam A )
I guess in this case, sailing isn’t taking them away to the place they’re going.
I agree about spaces and commas, but exclamation marks? Shrug. I’m no expert.
Your palindrome was excellent.
“Brigand” is a fairly traditional name associated with tugs. It was the name of a class of rescue tug during WWII. I was wondering why the name was so familiar to me and just remembered there used to be a tug of that name locally.
Qanon sez it’s because of Hillary and child sex trafficking. Hey, if it adds up, it adds up. Those Smartensteins don’t miss a beat.
"…The ship’s call sign is H3RC—the same three letters as the initials of the 2016 presidential candidate.
On the Telegram encrypted messaging app, a QAnon account with more than 106,000 subscribers wrote: "Suez Canal blocked by huge container ship named Evergreen. Evergreen shipping is most likely a cover for human and sex trafficking.
“HRC = Hillary Rodham Clinton. Evergreen = Hillary’s Secret Service name. Evergreen Call Sign: H3RC.”
Another influential QAnon advocate with more than 53,000 subscribers on the “free speech” social network Gab wrote: “Evergreen is HRC’s Secret Service name. It has also been speculated that Evergreen shipping is a front for human trafficking.”
BTW, this seems a good thread to recognize Malcolm McLean, the guy who invented the shipping container. Before them, loading and unloading a ship took a hell of a lot longer and ships were far smaller. And the same containers on the ship can be transported by rail or truck. (Once I was at an IKEA store that had just opened and as I was leaving the parking garage, I saw a pile of containers. Presumably these were used to deliver all of the stuff to the store. I really doubt that a store like IKEA would be feasible without these containers.)