"Until 2016, the Panama Canal limited ship sizes to 965' length overall and a 106' beam.
Merchant ships, and most naval ships (an Iowa-class battleship will just fit), were designed around those parameters.
...The Suez Canal Authority is going to have make changes, especially in how it enforces its transit limitations as regards weather reports, or it's going to need to escort these vessels, as happens in most ports, with tugs (it doesn't have) already made up to them fore and aft.
...The... lesson one ought take from this is that the world exists upon trade.
There exist no self-sufficient islands, not even North America.
Those thinking so have no idea the scale, nor the demands, of world trade.
Your morning coffee doesn't just appear out of nowhere, nor does anything else you use.
And it's complicated, because disparate factors all end up coordinating without even knowledge of each other, frequently not even speaking the same language.
...Today cargo values exceed a billion dollars per ship...Read all!
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