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Top three take-away lessons from the Suez Canal blockage

Top three take-away lessons from the Suez Canal blockage

FOR a week the world was gripped by the extraordinary sight of a massive container ship that had run aground in the Suez Canal in Egypt. The Ever Given is 400m long (1,312ft) and weighs 200,000 tonnes, with a maximum capacity of 20,000 containers. It was carrying 18,300 containers when it became wedged in the canal, blocking all shipping traffic. Efforts to free it finally paid off when it was partially dislodged in the early hours of Monday 29 March. Adejuwon Soyinka asked maritime security expert Dirk Siebels to unpack lessons learnt from the incident. DIRK SIEBELS, PhD (Maritime Security),…
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Suez Canal container ship accident is a worst-case scenario for global trade

Suez Canal container ship accident is a worst-case scenario for global trade

IT'S estimated that 90% of the world’s trade is transported by sea. As consumers, we rarely give much thought to how the things we buy make their way across the planet and into our homes. That is, until an incident like the recent grounding of a huge container ship, the Ever Given, in the Suez Canal exposes the weaknesses in this global system. RORY HOPCRAFT, Industrial Researcher, University of Plymouth KEVIN JONES, Executive Dean, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Plymouth KIMBERLY TAM, Lecturer in Cyber Security, University of Plymouth High winds have been blamed for the container ship…
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