How's That Ship Taking US Crude Oil To Switzerland Via Italy Doing? -- January 12, 2016

Over at some other apocalyptic gloom and doom site, it was said that there are absolutely no cargo ships on any of the global oceans today. Of course, that was dead wrong. The writer got his information from a site that was not meant to track ocean-going tankers. But it was fun to see someone else get something so wrong. I've done that more than once. LOL.

But it reminded me, how is that ship taking American crude oil to Italy doing? Let's check.

One of the links is a paysite, and the other site is not a whole lot better, but at this link, you can get "recent" lat/long: put these coordinates in google map search just like this (without the quotations marks, just cut and paste): "25.89443°  -76.07712°"

When you do that, you will have to zoom way, way out, to see where the ship is located. That location was from January 5, about a week ago, and the ship was just east of Florida then. To get a more recent location, based on satellite data, one needs a subscription. Which I don't have.

The distance from Miami, FL, to Naples, IT, is 4,608 nautical miles.  Doing the math, at the speed shown, the ship has about 13 more days from January 5 to get to Italy, about January 18th. They said it was due January 20th, the numbers seem to work out.