Ship stuck in the Suez

Factual Questions
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So, I am getting increasingly confused about the name of the ship in question. Is it Evergreen or Ever Given?

If you read the bbc article it refers to the ship as the Ever Given whereas if you see the picture accompanying the article the ship has Evergreen emblazoned across the side in huge letters.

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Ever Given is the ship, Evergreen is the company.

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And I wouldn’t be surprised if the management of both are indulging heavily in Everclear as they contemplate their liabilities adding up.

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Thanks - it did not come up in initial Googling. All I kept getting was “Shoei Kisen” that probably translates to Evergreen

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Everclear. That’s a good one.

Here is the ship from Aft.

Shows the name of the ship.

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Shoei Kisen owns the ship but the operator is Evergreen.

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Shoei Kisen Kaisha is a ship leasing company, Evergreen Line is a consortium of container shipping companies, Ever Given is the name of this particular ship. And as noted above, Everclear is what everyone involved is drinking right now.

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There’s probably a new cocktail making the rounds in the shipping industry. Take a tall cocktail glass & rim with salt. Add 1/2" of sand. Fill about halfway with some canal water. Drop in something edible, large, and heavy that sinks to the bottom & settles in the sand, like a jumbo olive. Add enough Everclear to fill the glass.

Viola: the Everstuck!

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…as they play “Never Have I Ever”

First round…

“Never have I ever… wedged a 400-meter long container ship sideways in a busy canal.”
“Anyone? Anyone?”

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And it is all owned by Weyland-Yutani.

Don’t open those containers.

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Even worse, the containers could be leased by Mao-Kwikowski Mercantile.

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So let’s try to get this straight:

  • The ship is owned by Japanese company Shoei Kisen Kaisha
  • It’s operated by Taiwanese company Evergreen Marine Corporation
  • It’s managed by Singapore company Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement [sic]
  • It’s registered in Panama
  • The salvage is being managed by Dutch company Boskalis Westminster
  • which is the parent company of SMIT Salvage BV, which is actually doing the salvage

And the captain is Indian, and the pilot is Egyptian…

…a truly world-class screw-up! :smile:  

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The news said every hour it’s stuck is costing global commerce $400 million. And it could result in shortages, and among the items mentioned is … toilet paper. Not again!

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On the … not “upside” but “slightly-less-downside” I think a lot of people now have a stash of toilet paper they didn’t last year, so even if there are shortages I am hoping things don’t get quite as insane as last time around.

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Evergreen has a bunch of ships named along the Ever G____ pattern: Ever Genius, Ever Glory, Ever Gentle, etc.

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Ever Grounded

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@LSLGuy beat you to it with his interesting proposal for a new drink, the Everstuck. :smiley:

It occurs to me that a great variation on the basic Everstuck would be the Mudslide Everstuck. The Mudslide used to be made with vodka, cream, and coffee, but the Mudslide Everstuck should be made with Everclear and actual canal mud. An elegant variation of the Mudslide Everstuck is made by adding a few soupçons of bilge water, served in French cafés as the Mudslide Everstuck d’élégance avec l’eau de bilge.

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There’s a thread on it:

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THAT’S FUNNY!!!

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Hysterical!