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Suez Canal blockage

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More than 12 per cent of the world’s trade passes through the Suez Canal.

The global economy already had a big problem. It just got much worse

The attacks in the Red Sea have threatened to throttle a vital part of the global economy that is already under pressure.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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Hotspots, choke points, pirates: it’s not always smooth sailing for the world’s ships

Most of the world’s traded goods come to us on huge vessels by sea. We don’t give it much thought – until they run into trouble.

  • Matt Wade
China’s Yantian port.

‘String of disasters’: China’s shipping delays set to widen trade chaos

Still reeling from the pandemic and the Suez Canal blockage, an exhausted global shipping industry faces the biggest test of its stamina.

The container ship Ever Given wedged in the Suez Canal.

Suez Canal to be expanded after Ever Given fiasco

The Panama-flagged, Japanese-owned ship ran aground in the single-lane stretch of the canal on March 23, blocking international trade for six days.

Egypt has seized the Ever Given, which blocked the Suez Canal for six days.

Egypt seizes the Ever Given, says owner owes $US900m over Suez Canal blockage

“The vessel is now officially impounded,” Lieutenant General Osama Rabie told Egypt’s state-run television. “They do not want to pay anything.”

  • Samy Magdy
In this photo released by the Suez Canal Authority, tug boats and diggers work to free the Panama-flagged, Japanese-owned Ever Given, which is lodged across the Suez Canal, Sunday, March 28, 2021. Two additional tugboats are speeding to canal to aid efforts to free the skyscraper-sized container ship wedged for days across the crucial waterway. That's even as major shippers increasingly divert their boats out of fear the vessel may take even longer to free. (Suez Canal Authority via AP)

Egyptian female captain subject to fake news campaign blaming her for blockage

Egypt’s first female ship captain says she was subject to a fake news campaign blaming her for grounding the Ever Given container ship in the Suez Canal, despite at the time working on a ship that was hundreds of kilometres away.

  • Abbie Cheeseman
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The backlog has cleared after the Ever Given ship was wedged in the Suez Canal for six days.

Suez Canal shipping backlog ends, days after giant vessel freed

All ships stranded by the grounding of the giant container ship Ever Given in the Suez Canal in March have passed through the canal, ending the backlog that built up during the blockage, the canal authority said.

  • Omar Fahmy
A backhoe tries to dig out the keel of the Ever Given.

Stuck from stem to stern: The 144-hour scramble to pry loose the Ever Given

Tugboat worker Eslam Negm thought about all the ship memes- the world was laughing at Egypt. “No one was able to see how much pressure we were under,” he said.

  • Sudarsan Raghavan, Siobhán O'Grady and Steve Hendrix
Cargo companies, insurers, government authorities and a phalanx of lawyers, all with different agendas and potential assessments, will not only need to determine the total damage but also what went wrong.

Suez Canal blockage wreaked economic havoc. Working out who will pay could take years

It took six days to prise free a giant container ship that ran aground and clogged the Suez Canal, one of the world’s most crucial shipping arteries. It could take years to sort out who will pay for the mess.

  • Motoko Rich, Stanley Reed and Jack Ewing
The Ever Given ship, owned by Evergreen, remains wedged in the Suez Canal. This is starting to impact the price of commodities that normally use the shipping route.

Why the world’s container ships grew so big

The traffic jam at the Suez Canal will soon begin easing, but behemoth container ships such as the one that blocked that crucial passageway for almost a week and caused headaches for shippers around the world aren’t going anywhere.

  • Niraj Chokshi

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