The Ever Given - The Ship That Broke Global Trade

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The Ever Given - The Ship That Broke Global Trade

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The Inside Story of the Ship That Broke Global Trade

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.

See - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVJ94tM7pNA
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