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Container Shipping Around South Africa (Cape of Good Hope) Temporarily Suspended Due to Weather
What's Going on With Shipping?
July 12, 2024
In this Behind The Scenes (BTS) episode, Sal Mercogliano - a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner - reports on the disruption caused by storms in the Southern Ocean due to storms and its impact on global shipping, particularly the Container sector.
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@stitcherlives 23 дня назад

I would love to see a "Sal at Sea" series!

@wgowshipping 23 дня назад

So would I.

@clockco1362 23 дня назад

that would be a goodie for sure

@Kim-J312 23 дня назад

And "Sea stories with Sal" ❤😊 covering historical, famous , ect ect all the way before the vikings ❤👍 .Would be so cool 👍Sal 😊

@gregculverwell 23 дня назад

I'm South African and a sailor. Our coast is not for sissies. A rocky coastline, 5 knot current and big storms pushing against that current can overwhelm good ships. I lived in the city of durban overlooking the harbour as a child. One of my favourite things was to go down to the harbour on the weekend to see progress on the repair of ships which had limped in with their bows missing etc. Much later in life I was crewing on a 48' sailing yacht when we were caught out 2 days from the nearest harbour in one of those storms. We were lucky to have survived knocked down innumerable times , taking on water and a panicked crew. We got through it, but it took 2 weeks to get back to seaworthy condition, followed by hauling it out when we reached Cape Town.

@wgowshipping 23 дня назад

Having sailed the Cape and been to Durban, you are not kidding. It is a rough patch of water.

@Youbetternowatchthis 23 дня назад

I really had no idea how interesting it would be to learn about shipping. It’s like secret knowledge about the inner workings of our global society. That you for doing this and smooth sailing! ⛵️

@SerendipityChild 23 дня назад

I found him when i looked up shipping news because I thought it would help with insomnia .. 🙃 haha is far too interesting

@13699111 23 дня назад

I agree it us a global view

@user-es4iu7ls2o 20 дней назад

As a South African, I can confirm that this type of heavy weather is expected and normal around the southern tip of Africa during the winter months. Nothing unusual about it.

@klauskraut5417 12 дней назад

As an retired ex sailor for a few years on a coaster between Cape Town and Durban the winter storms are the same like in the North Sea or North Atlantic!

@user-es4iu7ls2o 12 дней назад

@@klauskraut5417 agreed, our coastline is littered with wrecks.

@andrewvorster7771 23 дня назад

Thankyou for covering these incidents our coast is buzzing with activity since the Yemen attacks 🇿🇦

@S-WS-lx2hm 23 дня назад

Greetings from Cape Town. Everything this guys has said is true. For the past week we have had severe weather conditions, flooding, strong winds, damage to people's homes and infrastructure, rivers overflowing and the western cape province has been declared a disaster area.

@gordonrichardson2972 23 дня назад

Agreed! Good to see our area covered by Dr Sal.

@ttystikkrocks1042 23 дня назад

Sal finds a way to get us timely shipping news, no matter where he is! You have to be impressed!

@jacksondavis8940 23 дня назад

This makes me think of the November storms of the Great Lakes

@hanknaclek9747 22 дня назад

An old friend was an officer, later a captain, on Mobil tankers and told of the huge seas in that area that once smashed in the Captains cabin door, it was 80 ft above the waterline.

@louisvanoudtshoorn5350 23 дня назад

Live in Cape Town and the weather has been crazy .

@nexus-qb3bu 23 дня назад

Absolutely love what's going on in the Red Sea. Waiting on your report when Roosevelt goes deep sea diving 😂

@baldwintheanchorite 23 дня назад

I used to live in Cape Agulhas last year. Let me tell you, the wind can really make you hold onto things. It's cold too. I live about 140 miles inland now still in the Western Cape and we got hit by four big cold fronts back to back. Stay safe, sailors.

@gordonrichardson2972 23 дня назад

At 3:18 Sal refers to cyclonic events. That's the corect terminology, but not the expression we use here in the Cape.

@CaptainGyro 23 дня назад

Always an adventure “at sea” with Sal.

@robertlevine2152 23 дня назад

Sal, I was on the bridge of a tanker on a bright sunny day. The Master and Pilot were enjoying watching me soak in the beauty. The Pilot told me this was the first day in something like sixty that didn't have restricted visibility. Have a wonderful vacation and pray for sunshine. Bob

@deannekwon6822 23 дня назад

Enjoy your holiday!

@deansawich6250 23 дня назад

Thanks Sal. I live in Durban on the East Coast and this is our "best weather in the world" time of year. The temperatures around mid twenties (C) during the day, low humidity, low wind and clear skies. The cold fronts hitting the Cape slide off the Cape of Good Hope to the east. However, in the next month this will end and as the weather pattern shifts into Spring the fronts start to hug the east coast and we get hammered abit with rain and winds as the temperatures and humidity start to rise. Wishing you better weather and an enjoyable trip. ❤

@francioskirchner3675 23 дня назад

Hi Sal. I am from South Africa, and I watch all your videos. The weather around Cape Town is devastating with already loss of life's due to servere flooding.

@briangriffiths114 23 дня назад

Sal taking a vacation on a cruise ship is the equivalent of what we call a busman's holiday here in the UK.

@sarisaf 22 дня назад

You did not mention the dangerous whirlpools caused by the clashing of the Benguela current, sweeping north from the Antarctic, and the Agulhas current flowing south along the East coast of Africa. Even fine weather cannot stop this phenomenon.

@thoughtful_criticiser 22 дня назад

All but one of my uncles were merchant mariners, I never heard them call it the Cape of Storms. They called it the Cape of No Hope.

@user-es4iu7ls2o 20 дней назад

I am a South African. It is very much known as “Cape of Storms”, with good reason, many other names.

@AndrewSparkfish 23 дня назад

Huge storms here in Cape Town the last few days.

@michaelgideon8944 23 дня назад

I watched this on Friday talking about the cape winter storms and on Saturday I read a story on the US and Britain attacking the Houthi weapons with air strikes. I would guess we are due for a further escalation against Houthi forces due to the problems with shipping and the fact that PPI inflation came in hotter than expected. Thanks Sal, you provide key pieces of knowledge to understand the world.

@n6mz 23 дня назад

I've crossed the Sothern Indian Ocean in two different directions (Reunion Island Heard Island and Durban S.A. > Kerguelen Island > Fremantle Aus.) and it is a VERY, VERY impressive body of water. Very lonely except for the wonderful albatross and occasional whale. Lots of sphincter muscle exercises!

@patrickmorrissey2271 23 дня назад

I kinda wondered when this would happen.... There were good good reasons why people spent a ton of time, and a ton of money, to build the Suez Canal, and the Panama Canal....

@albertvanlingen7590 23 дня назад

Yup here from South Africa I can tell you this winter storm season is particularly bad.

@skunkjobb 23 дня назад

I see a few container ships around the Cape of good hope on Marine Traffic right now. The wind is 38 kt right at the cape but you don't need to go far south of it to have a lot loss wind. But the wind is not as bad as the waves, mean wave height about 6 m now, I would not sail through that.

@gordonrichardson2972 22 дня назад

6m waves are a lot better than the 10m waves earlier in the week.

@ProctorsGamble 23 дня назад

😃 Great to see you in your natural habitat, Sal! 🌊

@MADHIKER777 23 дня назад

Can't keep up with all the bottle necks these days! Enjoy your cruise, Sal.

@trevorzealley729 23 дня назад

What you say about the southern ocean rolling waves is true . I learned that the hard way . Nearly lost my left arm to a heavy winch line as just such a storm was starting up . Medivacked at 2am from a deck as the storm peaked . My reminder ( scar ) I call my Bass Strait tattoo. I also recall other times watching the deck flex as the bow dipped into the waves and wondered if we would make it .Sometimes I miss it and sometimes I don`t.

@flyingsword135 23 дня назад

They should have tested the rains down in Africa

@mrr5835 23 дня назад

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️😁

@bluedragontoybash2463 23 дня назад

Why don't they just go to Suez canal ?.... oh wait

@davidhollins870 23 дня назад

Great-great-granny's ship was nearly wrecked off Cape Agulhas near Capetown where the Atlantic meets the Indian Ocean - fortunately, she survived and met great-great-grandfather.

@HarryWHill-GA 23 дня назад

At least we don't have to route all this traffic around Cape Horn. Enjoy Alaska Sal.

@joeblow5037 23 дня назад

Sal traveling a jazillion miles to sightsee some fog.

@jmax8692 23 дня назад

Your comment is as cringeworthy as American politics…. Just stay quiet 😂

@csolivais1979 23 дня назад

@jmax8692 who pissed in your cereal this morning? Go back to bed and wake up with asense of humor.

@joeblow5037 23 дня назад

@@jmax8692 What Socialist utopia would you be hailing from, Sunshine? 😭

@UpsheetscreekWOapaddle 23 дня назад

This is NOT a place to demean others... You can leave yourself 👇🧐

@timoliver8940 23 дня назад

On your first video about the diversion around the Cape I made a comment to the effect that things would be interesting come the southern winter months. The expertise of navigators has diminished over the years of sunshine routes across the Indian Ocean to the Gulf of Aden…………………….. when I first went to sea in the early 1970’s there was a spate of severe damage to much smaller ships in the huge standing waves of the Agulhas Current. Even more recently winter storms have claimed several container ships anchored in Table Bay whose crews were not expecting the very rapid weather changes that occur down around the South African coast.

@EIGYRO 23 дня назад

Ah yes! the Bencruachan (bentcruachan) springs to mind. Fun place off Durban. I remember it well.

@timoliver8940 23 дня назад

@@EIGYRO oh yes that was a really good one that one

@macking104 23 дня назад

Googling… one site said no ship movement since Monday. Another site says 600 ships waiting!

@adamwhite3584 23 дня назад

Now this is commitment right here. Enjoy Alaska Dr. Sal

@rickrogers2649 23 дня назад

Dr. Sal is ALWAYS working. Hope you and the family actually get to see Alaska soon. 🌞

@IamNiggler 23 дня назад

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@bonniespeck 23 дня назад

I wondered when this would happen. The cape is definitely known for bad weather at certain times of the year like winter

@shauny2285 23 дня назад

True, just ask the Flying Dutchman.

@user-di4kv9yk3g 23 дня назад

great to see you chilling onboard something - question does the Captain know your on board and what you do - is he concerned in case you mark him out of ten hehe or have the crew invited you to check stuff out, now that would make a cool video or are you under strict orders from the better half

@earthsystem 23 дня назад

He heh heh 😀🌻

@mattc.310 23 дня назад

Thanks for the report from the bridge of the ss can't see. Calm sea state for Alaska. No surprises to those in the know.

@jaymacpherson8167 23 дня назад

Thank you for the shot of the racing sailboat Biotherm in the Ocean Race. Those sailors are CRAZY! I hope those lost containers don’t collide with a sailboat.

@larryrush2303 23 дня назад

thanks for the info about the rotation direction of the southern ocean around Antarctica

@rchap-grab 23 дня назад

Not just the storms the Agulhas current is a ship killer in the winter too

@gregbluefinstudios4658 23 дня назад

Enjoy the scenic views of Alaska! Perhaps a mention or two of Bab al-Mandab, Or two, will improve the views?

@cameltanker1286 23 дня назад

Welcome to Alaska. The sky today is a beautiful Aleutian Gray.

@phlogistanjones2722 23 дня назад

Sal... on a BOAT! Thank you for the updates. Peaceful Skies.

@davidr3431 23 дня назад

Thanks for the informative video and enjoy Alaska.🙂🙂🙂

@eaglerare1273 23 дня назад

Enjoy ur AK trip Sal

@johncheresna 23 дня назад

Great work as always.

@johnland5042 23 дня назад

Thanks for this quick summary. Hope the fog clears and you enjoy some great scenery!

@diannehardwick950 23 дня назад

Thanks, Sal, I had already put down lack of supplies of tinned mushy peas and other delights from Britain; delicacies I enjoy in Australia, to the Suez situation but to hear it has been exacerbated by weather in the southern ocean…oh dear me. Fish and chips aren’t going to be the same for a while are they?😂 nice to see you on the waves even if it was foggy. Best wishes from Southern Morton Bay.

@williamconrad1087 23 дня назад

We went on a wale watching boat and didn’t see any whales but it was still a fun boat ride.

@bc-guy852 23 дня назад

Wow - look at you go! Supposed to be 'enjoying some family time' and were it not for AMERICAN AIRLINES MESSING UP YOUR VACATION things would be even better! But I'm glad you're able to produce an episode Sal and I hope your luggage catches up with you soon. Thanks for the update. Tomorrow's should be a banger! That pier setup was 'a Cluster' since the beginning - - they sure didn't listen to you! Too Bad!

@icare7151 23 дня назад

Greetings Dr. S. Thank you for your awesome videos, skills and expertise lack no other!

@number1trucker 23 дня назад

Thanks for getting this info out while you're on vacation.

@peetsnort 23 дня назад

At one stage south africa had 2 of the most powerful tugs in the world.wolraad woltemade 210 ton pulling power. In 1976 Last year a tug built capabil pull 477tons

@TheVigilant109 23 дня назад

Great update Sal. Enjoy your holiday

@SabzKhumalo 23 дня назад

I was wondering why all those ships didn't decide to wait out the storm in Cape Town or PE or tried to cross cape town before the storms. We had a months notice of these storms. Our weather service in early June said we would have an abnormaly warm June then in July get cold stormy weather. This is not the 19th Century, shipments can be planned. If you travel close to the coast of South Africa you miss the bigger warm front storms but can time the cold fronts more or less. I fact, they are already tracking low pressure cells of the coast of South America the will reach our coast in the next 2 weeks. All I am saying, unlike tropical cyclones, the midlatitude low pressure cells in the southern hemisphere can be planned for.

@macking104 23 дня назад

Googling, one site says no ships went around since Monday. 600 ships waiting!

@OBCBTTB 23 дня назад

The Galaxy was sailing from Spain to Tanzania. The ship had not even rounded the Cape Of Good Hope but did face our worst winter storm in many a year, swells 10 to 12 meters for about 2 days with strong winds would have made it a challenge for any ship sailing down the coast during the period 8th to the 10th of July 2024. The Galaxy is wrecked on the west coast of South Africa, about 270km from Cape Point. The Galaxy heading South would have faced the swell on its starboard bow, and a wind of between 20 and 40 knots on its starboard beam. Quite challenging but not impossible. Unfortunately for Galaxy the only shelter would have been St Helena Bay, some 160km further south at the time of its distress.

@SubTroppo 23 дня назад

Clearly containers ships are not designed to hold their cargo if falling containers is common. The insurance companies that engender this situation should be held to account.

@peetsnort 23 дня назад

In the olden days of sail it wasn't cape of good hope

@Hybris51129 23 дня назад

It was Cape of Good God here we go again.

@allanriches9381 23 дня назад

Good to see you on the high seas

@IamNiggler 23 дня назад

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@loismiller2830 23 дня назад

Sal on the glacier tour. Typical Alaskan weather. Hope you a clear day tomorrow.

@bryancherry9253 22 дня назад

Welcome to Alaska!

@grislyghost 23 дня назад

Sal on a Boat discussing Good Hope? Beginnings of a Sea Shanty in there somewhere.

@larrypatty8333 23 дня назад

I went on a cruise to Alaska about 30 years ago. It was really surprising to see snow at the beginning of September in Juneau. It was also the only trip I took a lot of pictures.

@adrianbanks2089 23 дня назад

Thanks For The Great Update ! ( From a Cold North Kent UK )😊

@SteamCrane 21 день назад

1:40 - This illustrates the need for a strong cable running straight across the width of both ends of each stack, reasonably high up. Might be hard to get the cables up there, but some smart engineer might come up with a practical method. You can see that there are some diagonal cables, but they are clearly inadequate. They are at a very high angle, which makes them much less effective in stabilizing the stack.

@dcf4psu 23 дня назад

The short of the pier coming ashore is one of my all time favorites. A classic.

@AlwaysknowsMe 22 дня назад

Fascinating. True news.

@turlowem7735 11 дней назад

It's still Winter in South Africa past 3 weeks we had heavy storms in Western Cape

@pdxyadayada 23 дня назад

Bravo, Sal! Enjoy Alaska..

@IamNiggler 23 дня назад

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@BillSawyerPlus 23 дня назад

What I am wondering is, how much money is Egypt losing from basically no canal tolls being collected?

@standbytogo123 23 дня назад

This is a very good point and one I have been wondering about and like when is Egypt going to take out Yemen?

@tedmoss 23 дня назад

They are losing so much money they may go bankrupt.

@durranaik 23 дня назад

@@standbytogo123 Seriously? Only if wishes can take wings and flap off 😁

@deansawich6250 23 дня назад

@@standbytogo123The :greatest Navy in the world can't take out the Houties so I doubt Egypt can. 😂

@standbytogo123 22 дня назад

@@deansawich6250 Yeh, maybe they just complain to Iran and ask they call their dogs off, we're going broke here.

@800katie4U 23 дня назад

Winter is not a new season. Save travels Sal.

@KermitFrazierdotcom 23 дня назад

Seeing that stack fall away showed me that there were Zero Twistlocks installed on the vertical edges. That is Criminal Neglect. On camera too! Hope the WWT Rating was Good! (Wind and Water Tight)

@kinikinrd 23 дня назад

evidently the ships aren't responsible for the cargo they are carrying. If they were the tops of the stacks would be fastened together. They are not only causing losses for their customers, they are causing navigation hazards for other vessels and should be held liable for any damages but unfortunatly that would be hard to prove. They should be REQUIRED to secure the tops of the stack and pay a heavy fine for "missing" containers that their paying customers don't receive.

@Pompomgrenade 23 дня назад

😂 Thanks Sal. You're covering news of an important nature, as usual. And the press is avoiding the serious matter contained in your story, as usual.. 😂 Don't worry about shipping. It's not a big deal. Make sure you wear your Life preserver on the water...👍🏾

@earthsystem 23 дня назад

It's irresponsible how little news is focused on momentous happenings on Earth. People "writ large" don't realize, despite supply chain problems during covid, how fraught with peris this shutdown of the Red Sea is.

@christinevanzyl5951 23 дня назад

❤ it u commenting on our weather in the Cape. Its been a very rainy and cold week. I am lucky live in the Hoghveld. ❤

@dennisclapp7527 20 дней назад

Thanks Sal

@georgewest2096 23 дня назад

Yep, I use to take people out on my boat out of Santa Cruz Ca, and if the fog didn't clear they would get mad at me.

@kentriat2426 23 дня назад

I’m left wondering why a new system on holding containers on board has not been developed given the large numbers going over board.

@P_RO_ 23 дня назад

As long as insurance covers losses, nobody does anything to prevent them. Insurance runs the world.

@13699111 23 дня назад

Thank you always interesting informative information with your little twist of humor to

@Matt-ru5rw 23 дня назад

Thanks Sal!

@davidoldboy5425 23 дня назад

The first place where 'experts' acknowledged 100 ft waves before satellite if I remember correctly

@Idahoguy10157 23 дня назад

It’s almost as if the shipping companies and navies need to work together keeping the Red Sea open

@causechaos1313 19 дней назад

I am curious of panana lately. Ty for your service you do.

@JelMain 19 дней назад

It's been raining

@leaj3799 23 дня назад

Who else wants to see Sal reenact the SNL musical skit “I’m on a boat!”. Seriously though yup winter was inevitable in the southern hemisphere and its impact on shipping has to be considered. I’m sitting here wondering if reports I’ve heard of Egypt trying to restart the negotiations between Hamas and Israel, so they can push for traffic to come back through the Suez are related. In other words: its a small world and something happening on one end of the globe definitely impacts events much further away than most of us suspect.

@donaldduck4888 23 дня назад

Hmm. When the canal was shut from 1967 ships got round the cape without undue difficulty. Maybe the boxships are more vulnerable. Must be a video on that.

@wgowshipping 23 дня назад

Container Shipping was much smaller in that period in both size of ships and numbers.

@donaldduck4888 23 дня назад

@@wgowshipping Of course, hence my comment about boxships being more vulnerable. Back then it was tankers, which had got to first generation VLCCs, bulkers, and the hopelessly inefficient collection of little general cargo ships which containerisation has ushered out. The impression I had from your video is that the bulkers and tankers are having no particular problems with the Cape route (and indeed I remember sending tankers that way for economic reasons back in the dire tanker days of 1980 without any grumbles from the skippers) but the issue is with the huge stacks on the big boxships. And of course the Ben Franklin which you quoted is one of the enormous post Panamaxes These now have LOA and beam dimensions which are now pretty close to the largest ULCCs ever built, but with a very different air draft. Hence my speculation that the big boxships are more vulnerable to extreme weather.

@russelldold4827 23 дня назад

Glad you mentioned the Cape of Storms. In the context of harvesting electricity from wave energy, the South African southern coast is known as a high energy coastline.

@gordonrichardson2972 23 дня назад

That's not necessarily a good thing. Wave energy is most productive when they are predictable, not when you get hit with 30ft storms.

@huskymom234 23 дня назад

Just got back from 3 weeks up there - it is beautiful

@MervynPartin 22 дня назад

I have never served on a container ship, nor would want to. The loading of of a vessel is normally the (enormous) responsibility of the Mate and outside of my expertise, but those containers stacked so high look precarious. I know that it would reduce the tonnage carried (and thus income) but would a pyramidal stacking be more secure from losing containers over the side in rough weather? I do realise that it would be a double whammy with both reduced cargo and increased voyage length going around the Cape, but lost containers mean lost income and higher insurance plus a possible hazard to other shipping. Hope you manage to see Alaska, Sal. I only saw it briefly at Anchorage when it was snowing.

@pezpengy9308 22 дня назад

as if safety and common sense were more important that profits. pffft.

@SteamCrane 21 день назад

Well done video for being out on the road, err, Marine Highway!

@Pamudder 23 дня назад

Thank you!

@user-tc6ku3om3k 23 дня назад

Enjoy your vacation!

@NAFO_MythicPlague 22 дня назад

What happens to the cargo in the containers. Do they sink or are they able to float ashore? If someone finds containers are they allowed by shipping salvage laws to keep the cargo?