The attacks in the Red Sea have threatened to throttle a vital part of the global economy that is already under pressure.
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.
Still reeling from the pandemic and the Suez Canal blockage,an exhausted global shipping industry faces the biggest test of its stamina.
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.
“The vessel is now officially impounded,” Lieutenant General Osama Rabie told Egypt’s state-run television. “They do not want to pay anything.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Investigators are likely to examine the performance of the two Egyptian canal pilots aboard the Ever Given who were supposed to advise the captain.