- For the last 13 or so hours now, a vessel named Ever Given has been wedged sideways in the Suez Canal, holding up dozens of ships behind it and pinching the supply of important goods between Ever Given is one of the world’s largest ultra-large container vessels in operation, with the capacity to carry 20,000 containers (20 ft x 8 ft x 8 ft) at a time. And right now, it looks like this:
- The Suez Canal is operated by Egypt. It was built in a decade from 1859 and became operational on November 17, Its terminal are marked by Port Tewfik and Port Said. After a series of enlargements and upgrades, the canal was 193.3 km long, 24 metres deep and 205 metres wide in 2010. Ships moving through can have a maximum width of 77.5 metres
- The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez; and dividing Africa and Asia
- About 12% of global trade goes through the canal, making it so strategic that world powers have fought over the waterway since it was completed in 1869. For now, all that traffic is backed up with the Ever Given aground in the southern part of the canal, creating another setback for global supply chains already strained by the e-commerce boom linked to the
- The canal is among the most trafficked waterways in the world, used by tankers shipping crude from the Middle East to Europe and North America, as well as in the opposite direction. On Wednesday 185 vessels, mostly bulk carriers, container ships, and oil or chemical tankers, were waiting to cross the
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