Egypt’s Suez Canal: a maritime choke point
The 400-meter long, 220,000-ton MV [motor vessel ( )] Ever Given, classed as a so-called “megaship,” veered ( ) off course during a gale-force ( ) duststorm ( ).
The 59-meter-wide Taiwan-run, Panama-flagged vessel became stuck ( ) near the southern end of the Suez Canal, diagonally ( ) blocking the man-made ( ) waterway ( ) that connects the Mediterranean with the Red Sea.
Opened 150 years ago, Egypt’s Suez Canal has been regularly expanded ( ) and modernized, and it is today capable of ( ) accommodating ( ) some of the world’s largest supertankers ( ), handling roughly 10 percent of international maritime trade. In 2019 around 50 ships used the canal daily, compared with three in 1869.
The majority ( ) of oil transported by sea passes through the Suez Canal, which is the fastest crossing ( ) from the North Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean, but demands hefty ( ) passage tolls ( ). The journey between ports in the Persian Gulf and London, for example, is roughly halved ( ) by going through the Suez Canal compared to the alternate ( ) route via the southern tip of Africa.
Most of the cargo ( ) traveling from the Persian Gulf to Western Europe is oil. In the opposite direction, it is mostly manufactured goods and grain ( ) from Europe and North America headed to the Far East and Asia.
The latest blockage ( ) highlights ( ) the risks faced by the shipping industry as more and more vessels transit ( ) maritime choke points including the Suez and Panama canals, the Strait of Hormuz and Southeast Asia’s Malacca Strait. Those routes ( ) are also having to accommodate increasingly larger ships that are more complex ( ) to rescue, while the container-carrying capacity of vessels has doubled in the past decade.
埃及蘇伊士運河:世界海運之吭
長達四百公尺、二十二萬噸,屬於所謂「超大型船舶」的內燃機船「長賜號」,在沙塵暴的大風中偏離了航道。
這艘五十九公尺寬,由台灣企業經營、以巴拿馬為船旗國的船卡在蘇伊士運河南端附近,以斜角堵住了這條連接地中海與紅海的人造水路。
埃及的蘇伊士運河一百五十年前開航,一直定期進行擴建及現代化改造,如今能夠容納世界上最大的一些超級油輪,經手大約百分之十的國際海洋貿易。二○一九年,每天約有五十艘船通過運河,在一八六九年則為每日三艘。
大部分經海路運輸的石油都會通過蘇伊士運河,但需付高額通行費,蘇伊士運河是由北大西洋通往印度洋最快的渡口。例如,要來往波斯灣諸港及倫敦之間,經由蘇伊士運河要比繞道非洲南端的替代路線縮短了大約一半的行程。
由波斯灣運往西歐的貨品大部分為石油;而反方向的運輸,主要是將歐洲及北美洲的製成品與穀物,運往遠東及亞洲。
近日的蘇伊士運河堵塞事件確實凸顯出航運業所面臨的風險,因為有越來越多的船通過海上戰略咽喉要塞,包括蘇伊士運河、巴拿馬運河、荷莫茲海峽,以及東南亞的麻六甲海峽。這些路線還必須容納體積越來越大的船舶,體積越大,救援起來就越複雜。船舶的裝載貨櫃容量在過去十年中整整翻了一倍。
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🌪 Typhoons and Hurricanes 颱風與颶風
After a record-setting July—the first in 70 years with no typhoons or tropical storms—Taiwan finally got its first typhoon on Monday, August 3. Not particularly destructive by typhoon standards, Typhoon Hagupit nevertheless dropped heavy rain as it passed by north of the island, causing two casualties—a government employee who drowned at a pumping station and a scooter rider who was injured in a collision with a falling tree.
臺灣創下記錄,70年來首次在7月份沒有任何颱風或熱帶低氣壓,不過在8月3日週一終於迎來今年第一個颱風。以標準來看,輕度颱風哈格比雖然沒有特別具破壞性,但仍為臺灣北部帶來豪雨並造成2人死傷──1名政府人員被發現溺死在抽水站,1名機車騎士遇倒塌路樹受傷。
At the same time, Hurricane Isaias—the second of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, was headed toward the U.S. East Coast after causing flooding and property damage on several Caribbean islands. Typhoons and hurricanes are both large, spinning storms that form in the summer and early fall. They are both cyclones (cyclone comes from the Greek word for wheel) characterized by strong winds that form over tropical or subtropical waters. And they both have a low-pressure “eye” at the center when seen in a satellite image. So what is the difference?
同一時間,大西洋生成的2020年第2號颶風伊薩亞斯,對數個加勒比海海島造成洪災與經濟損失後,也正襲擊美國東岸。颱風跟颶風規模都很大,常在夏季與早秋形成,為旋轉式的暴風雨型態。兩者都是熱帶氣旋(cyclone氣旋這個字是希臘文,指「輪子」),是在熱帶或亞熱帶海域上所形成的強烈風暴。兩者中心都有低氣壓「眼」,在衛星雲圖上可以清楚看到。那麼,颱風和颶風到底有什麼不同呢?
The only difference between typhoons and hurricanes, it turns out, is where they occur. When tropical cyclones with wind speeds of 119 km per hour or higher form in the Northwest Pacific, they’re called typhoons—a word that probably came into English from the Cantonese term for “big wind.” When these same storms form in the Atlantic or Northeast Pacific, they’re called hurricanes—from the Spanish huracán, which was borrowed from Hurikán, the Taíno (a Caribbean tribe) god of storms. What about tropical cyclones that form in the Indian Ocean? They’re just called tropical cyclones.
原來,唯一的不同在於兩者所生成的地方。當熱帶氣旋生成於太平洋西北海域,且風速高達每小時119公里以上時,這些熱帶氣旋就叫做typhoon(颱風)──這個英文字可能源自廣東話「大風」。而同樣條件的暴風雨如果在大西洋或太平洋東北海域生成,就叫hurricane(颶風)──源自西班牙語「huracán」,這個字是借自一支叫做Taíno 的加勒比部落語言,他們稱風暴之王為Hurikán。那在印度洋生成的熱帶氣旋又叫做什麼呢?直接叫tropical cyclone(熱帶氣旋)就好。
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【✍ 主題單字】
1. record-setting「創下記錄的」:record 在這裡指「記錄」,相關用語:record-breaking「破紀錄的」
2. casualty「(意外或事故)傷亡人員」
3. collision「車輛碰撞」
4. tropical「熱帶的」;subtropical「亞熱帶的」
5. satellite image「衛星雲圖」
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💚地球十分之三是陸地❤️
💛十分之七是海洋💜
陸地分為七大洲 海洋分為五大洋
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AFRICA 非洲
EUROPE 歐洲
ASIA 亞洲
OCEANIA 大洋洲
NORTH AMERICA 北美洲
SOUTH AMERICA 南美洲
ANTARCTICA 南極洲
PACIFIC OCEAN 太平洋
ATLANTIC OCEAN 大西洋
INDIAN OCEAN 印度洋
ARCTIC OCEAN 北冰洋
ANTARCTIC OCEAN 南冰洋
富士山🗻在哪?
足球⚽️的發源地?
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Route was from Red Sea -- Gulf of Aden -- Indian Ocean -- Colombo -- Malacca Strait -- Singapore -- South East China Sea -- Hong Kong
Camera used: D750, Rokinon 12mm f/2.8
0:32 Milky Way
0:53 Sirius Star (I think) Correction: Jupiter the planet according to some viewers
1:17 Approaching Port of Colombo
1:45 Cargo Operation
2:08 Departure Colombo with Rainstorm
2:29 Beautiful Sunrise
3:13 Lightning Storm at Malacca Strait and Singapore Strait
3:29 Clear night sky Milky Way with lightning storm
4:01 Camera getting soaked
5:09 Arrival Singapore
5:56 Departure Singapore
6:20 Moon-lit night sky
6:48 Another Sunrise
8:30 Headed due north and you can see Ursa Major rotating neatly around Polaris.
8:36 Squid Boats
8:54 Chaotic Traffic
9:15 Arrival Hong Kong
Music:
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=====10 Reasons Why Maritime is AWESOME =====
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U18AHZbS_M
=====10 Reasons Why Maritime SUCKS =====
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdMYEKwxTyo
=====How To Anchor a Mega-Ship =====
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62O7KYfb4GA
=====Where did I go last 2 months?? Cancun Adventure======
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsizwRUXoa0
=====Navigation Bridge of a Mega Ship=====
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj3_peT4u9M
=====A Tour of Mega Ship's Engine Room=====
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7BhBsVigZw
=====HEAVY SEAS! Bad Weather in Atlantic Ocean=====
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZA6gNeZ5G4
=====Cargo Operations on Ship=====
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj7ixi2lqF4
=====Top 6 Questions about Merchant Marine=====
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBpQ9Y4jEfg
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