Passing Suez Canal – Full Transit Experience | Time Lapse | RoamerRealm

Passing Suez Canal – Full Transit Experience | Time Lapse | RoamerRealm

The Suez Canal is a man made sea-level waterway in Egypt which connects the Mediterranean and the Red Sea! It’s the short cut via sea between Asia and Europe!

The ships intending to transit the canal should arrive in advance and wait for their ‘turn’ to enter the canal.

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Once notified about the slot, they enter the canal one by one. This is exactly what is happening on screen right now The transit may be either North bound or South bound depending on the entry point and exit point of the canal.

It’s a very restricted passage and the ships sail really close to the land
Even a slight error in navigation can lead to an accident. That’s why the ships travel at a much slower speed here than their usual service speed.

As you can see, ships transit the canal in a convoy, queued
up one behind the other with a safe distance in between them…

Since the canal was closed, we had to go around Africa
It took us 22 days!!! Via the canal it takes less than 22 hrs!
Now you understand why it’s called the “Short Cut”

Have you ever crossed the Suez Canal? Let me know in comments!

Sandstorms are quite common in the Suez Canal
but I’m glad it was blue sky and clear horizon on this day!

There is at least 1 Suez Pilot on board all the time during the transit
For those who don’t know, a “Ship Pilot” is an experienced navigator
who is also most likely a local. He/She has expert information about
the local area and using that they assist the Ship Captain with navigation

Coming up in a few seconds, is one of the highlights of the canal transit. It’s the beautiful bridge knows
as the Mubarak Peace Bridge. Also called as the Egyptian
Japanese Friendship bridge, it’s around 4 KMs in length
and links the continents of Africa and Asia.

Certain sections of the canal have settlements which are far
more densely populated than the others. This was one such area.

This is a north bound transit, and it’s nearing it’s end, but we
have a port call at Port Said before we sail into the Mediterranean

See those cranes? They’re waiting for us! That’s the port!

The Pilot also assists the Captain to bring the ship alongside

It’s usually a 24 hour port stay after the ship is alongside

You see the ships sailing on the left hand side of your screen?

They don’t have this port in their schedule, so once the canal
transit is done, they continue to sail into the Mediterranean

Once the ship is alongside, the cranes comes closer and start
working i.e. loading/unloading the container boxes as per the plan

This (cargo operations) continue during the entire port stay

It’s a new day now! The cargo operations are still ongoing in
full swing! The ship will be departing this port later today and
we’ll be heading towards our next port which is in Italy.

Modern day port terminals are really advanced and these cranes
can move upto 40 containers in an hour. The ships are getting
bigger, they carry more containers, but the cranes are getting
faster, so, overall the port stay is becoming shorter!

Shorter port stays make everything more hectic and time pressed!

Besides, it also means that there is hardly any chance to step
off the ship and explore around in the city/port areas.

The cargo operations are nearing completion. Once that happens,
the cranes move away from our ship so as to avoid any danger
of them hitting the ship’s accommodation when ship is sailing out.

Check out this video (link on screen) to better understand what
exactly is going on when the ship is departing from the port.

And off we go . . . Enjoy the sunset as we sail into the Mediterranean

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