Out of Curiosity... are there any hardbacks stuck on a boat in Suez?

[Chumbly]

Just out of curiosity... are any printed books being shipped via the Suez Canal? Since clearing it, according to the news could now be
weeks, evidently, shipping companies are now looking at turning ships around and sending them around Africa or across the Pacific
to Panama... Just curious, if any Mongoose books shipping containers are going on the new "World Tour" :lol:

Chumbly

 

[AndrewW]

A party of Travellers shall be sent to retrieve the books. Doesn't pay a lot but offers plenty of adventure! Please apply within.

 

[Condottiere]

Requires skill: Seafarer.

 

[AndrewW]

Requires skill: Seafarer.

Maybe not, just need to go in and retrieve, don't need to operate the boat.

Might need Heavy Weapons and/or Explosives though to clear the way to the container.

 

[Condottiere]

I thought about helicopter and/or air/raft, but that might attract too much attention, and you need something to transport the books.

 

[Chumbly]

I think Egypt needs to put a sign at each end of the canal...

"Warning: The pointy end of the ship needs to be pointed at the water
in the center path of the Canal, if you point the pointy end at either side where
there is dirt(in either the direction of the Nile or Isreal) You
will NOT be going through the canal today..."


Chumbly

 

[Condottiere]

The New Suez Canal (Egyptian Arabic: قناة السويس الجديدة‎ Kanāt El Sewēs El Gedīda) is an artificial waterway project in Egypt which created a second shipping lane along part of the Suez Canal. Also, other parts of the Suez Canal were deepened and widened. The project was inaugurated by the Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority Mohab Mamish in the presence of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on 5 August 2014.[3] The new canal was opened one year later in a ceremony attended by several international dignitaries including the then French President François Hollande.

The New Suez Canal is expected to expand trade along the fastest shipping route between Europe and Asia. The new canal allows ships to sail to both directions at the same time. This decreases transit time from 18 to 11 hours for most ships. The expansion is expected to double the capacity of the Suez Canal from 49 to 97 ships a day.[3]

The New Suez Canal is 72 km (45 mi) long, including 35 km (22 mi) of dry digging, and 37 km (23 mi) of "expansion and deep digging" to provide a second shipping lane in the existing 164-kilometre-long (102 mi) canal, allowing for separated passing of ships in opposite directions. It also includes the deepening and expansion of a 37-kilometre-long (23 mi) section of the existing canal.[4][5] The construction, which was scheduled to take three years, was instead ordered by the President to be completed in a year. The chairman of the Suez Canal Authority announced that the revenues from the Suez Canal (after the completion of the New Suez Canal) will jump from 5 billion dollars to 12.5 billion dollars annually. The Egyptian government said that these revenues will be used to transform the cities along the Canal (Ismaïlia, Suez, and Port Said) into international trading centers. The government has also said that many new projects in the Suez province are being studied as a result of enlarging the Suez Canal capacity, such as building a new industrial zone, fish farms, and the completion of the valley of technology (wadi al thechnologia).

The project cost around 30 billion Egyptian pounds (approximately 4.2 billion dollars) and no foreign investors were allowed to invest in the project, but rather Egyptians were urged to participate in funding the project through bank certificates of deposit initially yielding 12%, later raised to 15.5%.[6] The Egyptian Armed Forces participated in the project by helping in digging and designing the canal.[7]

The enlarged capacity allows ships to sail in both directions at the same time over much of the canal's length. Beforehand, much of the canal was only one shipping lane wide, with limited wider basins for passing. This is expected to decrease waiting time from 11 hours to 3 hours for most ships,[4][8] and to increase the capacity of the Suez Canal from 49 to 97 ships a day.

 

[Chumbly]

So, was the Ship's navigator unskilled in Navigator or Helmsman unskilled in Seafarer, and took -3 DM
on the Safely Guide the Ship Through The Canal Skill Check,

or did one of them roll snake eyes....?


Chumbly

 

[Condottiere]

Evergreen Marine said the ship was "suspected of being hit by a sudden strong wind, causing the hull to deviate... and accidentally hit the bottom and run aground".

 

[Chumbly]

Evergreen Marine said the ship was "suspected of being hit by a sudden strong wind, causing the hull to deviate... and accidentally hit the bottom and run aground".

So somebody's roll was "2"

 

[Condottiere]

Dungeon master rolls for random events.

Player rolls pilot check, penalty for surprise.

 

[MongooseMatt]

As it turns out, no, it does not look like we have any books stuck in that particular traffic jam.

No, our bear at the moment is US Customs, who are currently holding Aliens of Charted Space Volume 1 and Sword Worlds - hopefully they get released very soon but it looks like they will slip into an April release, along with Skandersvik.

Sorry!

 

[Condottiere]

Vessels Accumulate as Cargo Ship Remains Lodged in Suez Canal
Published: 3/27/2021, 6:58:10 PM
The Ever Given container ship on Saturday remained lodged in the Suez Canal in Egypt, where it had been stuck since Tuesday. Authorities said the jam has caused a backlog of more than 300 ships waiting to cross.

https://istheshipstillstuck.com/

 

[Chumbly]

Interesting article on steering big ships... There is a steering simulator game embedded in the article
that lets you take your turn at taking a large container ship through the canal.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/steering-worlds-biggest-ships-suez-canal-cmd/index.html

Actually, might be a fun thing if some ambitious traveller built a little simulator built along similar lines to take a large merchant in space dock
in Traveller terms or through the asteroids into jump ...

Chumbly


How did I do... well let's just say I aptly demonstrated what letting a crew member unskilled in Navigation and Seafarer take the helm
in the Suez Canal would result in.. I think my best effort was about a mile up the channel before I did the collision thingie.

 

[Chumbly]

No, our bear at the moment is US Customs, who are currently holding Aliens of Charted Space Volume 1 and Sword Worlds - hopefully they get released very soon but it looks like they will slip into an April release, along with Skandersvik.

Sorry!

A Mercenary Ticket is available for a small snatch and grab raid, one of the regimes(probably under strong Solomani Party influence) in the North America region on the Balkanized world of Terra is holding needed information assets hostage in a secure custom's facility preventing the dissemination of information about the state of Charted Space to the world's population. Seize the information assets and transfer them to the distribution facility of the Mongoose Operation that is attempting to educate the world's population about the true nature of Charted Space.
Details will be made available to vetted personnel upon contract activation.

Chumbly

 

[Condottiere]

Have you tried Bureaucracy, Administration and Social Standing?