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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by zeteo on Thursday March 25, 2021 @05:56PM (#26585980)
>Some people have suggested unloading the ship. I don't think you realize the infrastructure required to unload a ship. You're basically asking to build a port in the middle of the egyptian desert. That isn't going to happen.

I think you just need a smaller crane ship to transfer the cargo e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary_crane_ship

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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by dogma1138 on Thursday March 25, 2021 @06:20PM (#26586298)
Assuming the crane ship can even get into position to offload it.

The ship is stuck because the sides of the canal are quite shallow.

You are quite likely to get two stuck ships instead of one.

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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by PeterisP on Thursday March 25, 2021 @06:00PM (#26586039)
IMHO would take weeks to unload the cargo with something like that.
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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by zeteo on Thursday March 25, 2021 @06:03PM (#26586076)
Yeah but you may not need to unload it completely. At some point as the buoyancy improves the tugs become more likely to pull it off.
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