Global Shipping Infrastructure and the Ever Given | Future
The Ever Given container ship blocked the Suez Canal in March 2021 and cost the world time and money. This is not a one-off disaster. It’s an omen of a global problem.
The world watched when the container ship Ever Given blocked the Suez Canal this March. Some people made sites , many people made memes ; I made a children’s book . It seemed almost comical: A patch of bad weather drove the 1312-foot long, 200000 tonnes-heavy container ship Ever Given askew, wedging her into the narrow canal at an angle. She was stuck. It may have delighted the internet, but it also cost the world time and money — diverting up to 450 other vessels (about 30% of the world’s shipping container traffic) and costing up to 0.4% in trade growth worldwide: about 10 billion U.S. dolla
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