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The six-day stranding of the Ever Given in the Suez Canal last March did something incredibly rare: it made regular people care about shipping, the means by which more than 80% of the world’s goods are transported.
It took only one wrong turn for the container ship to bring a critical trading artery to a standstill. This is how a $1 billion worth of cargo got stuck, freed and impounded as the courts took over.
Read Kit Chellel's full feature story in Bloomberg Businessweek:
Six Days in Suez: The Inside Story of the Ship That Broke Global Trade
How the Ever Given and its billion-dollar cargo got stuck, got free, got impounded, and got taken to court.
Rescue vessels in the Suez Canal work to dislodge the Ever Given on March 26.
PHOTOGRAPHER: AHMED GOMAA/XINHUA/ZUMA PRESS
By
Kit Chellel
, Matthew Campbell
, and K Oanh Ha
June 23, 2021, 9:01 PM MST
Captain Krishnan Kanthavel watched the sun rise over the Red Sea through a dusty haze. Winds of more than 40 mph, whipping off the Egyptian desert, had turned the sky an anemic yellow. From his viewpoint on the bridge, it was just possible to see the dark outlines of the 19 other vessels anchored in Suez Bay, waiting for their turn to enter the narrow channel snaking inland toward the Mediterranean.
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