If you’ve switched on the news, gone on the internet or read a newspaper at all in the last week, you’ll have heard about the giant Evergreen-owned ship that has been blocking the Suez Canal.
The 400m-long vessel carrying 20,000 containers, known as the Ever Given, went off course as it passed through a dust storm; as winds reached 30 knots (35 mph), the ship veered to one side and ran aground, blocking the Suez Canal – and £6.5bn in global trade each day it’s been stuck there.
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