Maritime traffic jam grows outside blocked Suez Canal
Al Jazeera
MV Ever Given has been wedged across the entire canal since Tuesday, shutting the crucial shipping waterway.
A maritime traffic jam burgeoned to more than 200 vessels on Friday outside the Suez Canal as dredgers worked frantically to free a giant container ship stuck in the vital waterway and disrupting global shipping. The blockage was holding up an estimated $9.6bn worth of cargo each day between Asia and Europe, said Lloyd’s List, a shipping data and news company. Efforts to free it may take weeks and be complicated by unstable weather, threatening costly delays for companies already dealing with COVID-19 restrictions.More Related News