At the spot where Ever Given ran aground, the Suez Canal is around 200 meters across, so a fully loaded, 400-meter-long container ship wedged hard diagonally across the canal immediately presented ...

The 2021 Suez Canal blockage resulted in a loss of nearly $89 million for the shipping company Maersk Line. This is revealed in a new study conducted by a European research team in collaboration ...

This ‘NOVA’ entry on PBS looks at why the Ever Given got lodged in the narrow waterway, stranding more than 400 other ships along with nearly $10 billion in medical supplies, food and other goods.

Moment out-of-control 700ft cargo ship crunches into Suez Canal port as workers run for their lives. Story by James Reynolds • 44m. ... 2021, causing tailbacks of hundreds of ships.

Suez Canal maritime traffic was "normal" Monday after a cargo vessel carrying Ukrainian grain ran aground but was then refloated and towed away, said the Egyptian authority running the vital waterway.

This app lets you put the Suez Canal-blocking ship anywhere (March 2021) Egypt bids adieu to Suez Canal saga with payoff and a party (July 2021) Why the world’s container ships grew so big (2021 ...

Key Background. The Suez Canal offers the most direct maritime link between Asia and Europe and is one of the busiest waterways in the world. It is a crucial supply chain conduit for all manner of ...

The Suez Canal is one of the most important trading routes in the world, accounting for about 12 percent of global trade. After the Ever Given was freed, Egypt said it would widen and deepen the ...

The Suez and Panama Canals are among the most important sea trade routes in the world. In 2022 alone, almost 23,900 ships transported around 1.4 billion tons of freight through the 193-kilometre ...

Officials said a cargo ship carrying corn that went aground early Monday in the Suez Canal was refloated and traffic was restored, avoiding a scene from 2021 that blocked traffic for six days.