Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoThe Panama Canal is so clogged up that a shipping company paid $4 million to jump the line: reportwww.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up145arrow-down10
arrow-up145arrow-down1external-linkThe Panama Canal is so clogged up that a shipping company paid $4 million to jump the line: reportwww.businessinsider.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square7fedilink
minus-squareSir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 months agoCape Horn is also dangerous as fuck. If ships opt to go that route, I’d be willing to bet that a percentage of them don’t make it.
minus-squaremetaStatic@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·11 months ago“you go round the horn like god intended”
minus-squareSkua@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·11 months agoCape of Good Hope. Horn is the one at the southern end of South America. That said you’re still right that it remains a dangerous route, even with all the advantages of modern shipbuilding and weather forecasting ignore me I am apparently illiterate
minus-squarekevin_alt2@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 months agoI’m pretty sure we’re talking about going around South America if we’re talking about the Panama Canal…
minus-squareSkua@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoFuck me I totally misread the title. My bad.
Cape Horn is also dangerous as fuck. If ships opt to go that route, I’d be willing to bet that a percentage of them don’t make it.
“you go round the horn like god intended”
Cape of Good Hope. Horn is the one at the southern end of South America. That said you’re still right that it remains a dangerous route, even with all the advantages of modern shipbuilding and weather forecastingignore me I am apparently illiterateI’m pretty sure we’re talking about going around South America if we’re talking about the Panama Canal…
Fuck me I totally misread the title. My bad.