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Chapter 303 A Rescue with Effortless Effort

The officials in charge of the Suez Canal were extremely anxious, like ants on a hot plate, and could only pin their hopes on the professional rescue team that had been invited.

Similar incidents of ship blockades have occurred in the Suez Canal before.

Most of these are minor incidents, and rescues can usually be completed in a few hours or half a day, allowing the waterway to remain open.

But this time the mess they made was just too big!
Faced with the container ship that was blocking the canal bank, even these professional rescue teams seemed to be willing but unable to do anything: "Gentlemen, it's not a matter of money, it's that the rescue is too difficult! Based on a comprehensive assessment of the situation on site, we have already given a very conservative estimate of several months for the rescue time."

While speaking, the head of the rescue team also explained how to handle ship grounding accidents.

Such large-scale grounding accidents are usually handled with a rescue plan that combines towing to refloat the stranded vessel with tide level assistance.

However, the Suez Canal is an artificial waterway, and there are no significant tidal changes here, making it difficult to adopt this rescue plan. We can only take a step back and choose the traditional lifting plan.

The process involves using a large number of jacks to lift the boat out of its stranded state, and then using slipway rollers to push the boat back into the water.

This approach is not much different from the first launch of a new ship, but it is safer and more stable, although it takes a long time.

Another simpler and more direct lifting method is to use a large number of cranes and gantry cranes to lift the entire ship and push it into the canal. For example, a warship owned by a man in his 80s was saved from an accident during its launch using this method.

In short, regardless of the rescue plan, heavy-duty lifting equipment must be used.

Many small and medium-sized countries that lack sufficient lifting equipment or technical personnel may have no choice but to abandon ship when faced with similar groundings.

This results in the sight of abandoned, corroded, and rusted ships moored in the sea when passing through the coastlines of some countries.

Because the money and time required to deal with such a grounded ship are usually no less than the ship's residual value.

For the shipping bosses behind the scenes, all they need to do is do the math to know how to make their choice.

Since the rescue operation is going to cost so much money, why not just buy a new or used boat?
After all, time is money in the shipping industry.

……

Of course, after hearing the rescue team's plan, several Suez Canal officials were plunged into despair.

This damn rescue will take months. If the news gets out, let alone causing a global trade shock, the pressure within Egypt alone will be enough to get those responsible fired on the spot.

After all, a day's shutdown results in losses of several hundred million dollars, and a shutdown for several months would have a huge impact on Egypt's fiscal revenue.
However, just when everyone thought that the stranded cargo ship had been sentenced to 'death'.

The walkie-talkie notification from the canal dredging department unexpectedly changed the almost stagnant atmosphere in the office.

"What did you say?"

"A super engineering vessel from China is planning to help us organize a rescue operation?" The head of the canal management office was a little stunned when he received the news.

He didn't understand what this 'super engineering vessel' was.

Isn't it just an engineering vessel?
Every year, at least 800 to 1,000 ships pass through the Suez Canal. How can it be associated with the word "super"?
Even the professional rescue teams they had hired were starting to chuckle.

Because the shipping industry has a long-standing tradition of exaggerating names.

They claimed to be unsinkable, like the Titanic and Hercules, and even the Poseidon—basically, the more exaggerated the better.

Simply adding the word 'super' to it doesn't mean anything.

As for the engineering vessels used for rescue, the rescue teams present had all seen them.

Like the previously largest engineering vessel in the world, the Pioneer Spirit, built by the Swiss company Allseas, which mainly engaged in the installation and dismantling of offshore oil and gas platforms, it was 382 meters long and had a displacement of 48 tons.

Even so, the Pioneer Spirit's single lifting weight only reaches 4.8 tons.

It's simply unrealistic to try and lift that stranded container ship with a single vessel!
Unless several behemoth engineering vessels like the Pioneer Spirit arrive at once and work together in a coordinated lifting operation, it would be impossible. However, when everyone left the office, urged on by walkie-talkies, intending to check the situation on the canal...

The Chinese engineering vessel in the distance, so different from the engineering ships of conventional impressions, gave all the experts from the rescue teams present an unforgettable visual shock!

The giant ship, flying the Chinese flag and painted with the Rubik's Cube logo, squeezed through the crowded canal waterways and arrived at the stranded container ship.

It suddenly began a transformation unlike anything I'd ever seen before!

It was seen that more than a dozen giant mechanical arms, gleaming with silver light, extended from its back. While gripping the part of the container ship that was aground, it also extended a pair of hydraulic piles, each more than ten meters high, from the ship's hull.

The hydraulic piles forked out and extended onto the bank, then sank into the canal bank like two giant iron nails.

The sight of the triangular support pole, magnified tens of thousands of times, left the rescue team's experts speechless.

"What does it want to do?"

"Set up a foothold on the shore?"

"This ship is huge! It looks twice the size of the Pioneer Spirit!"

"Those robotic arms are so flexible! They're like the arms of a Transformer!"

"Super...this is a true super engineering vessel!"

"What is the name of that Chinese ship?"

"The Poseidon?!"

Even the head of the Suez Canal's management office was pounding with excitement at the sight before him.

The stalled rescue plan, which had been almost given a 'critical condition' notice by the rescue experts, has unexpectedly taken a dramatic turn for the better.

The sight of those massive machines beginning their rescue work prompted the ships lined up behind them on the Suez Canal to sound their horns in salute.

Once the two giant piles supporting the ship were firmly in place, the dozen or so mechanical arms on the Poseidon, which were pulling the container ship, began to lift it.

The cargo ship, which was originally stuck on the shore, now appeared to be tilting forward like a seesaw in full view of everyone.

A container ship weighing 20 tons was handled as easily as a toy boat in a child's hand by those behemoths of the Poseidon.

More than half of the ship's hull was suspended at an angle in mid-air!

The shocking scene left everyone present wide-eyed.

What kind of immense force is that?
They were able to lift a 20-ton cargo ship in one go!
When did China's engineering vessels acquire such unreasonable rescue techniques?

Especially the experts in those rescue teams, at this moment it seems that they have seen a brand new possibility in the rescue industry!

When those silver arms gave a gentle push, the stranded cargo ship began to slowly row backward into the canal channel, and the Egyptians who had been watching from both sides of the canal burst into cheers.

The ships from various countries lined up on the river sounded their horns in celebration.

“It’s working!”

"The waterway is open!"

"Chinese technology is awesome!"

(End of this chapter)