Conversation Begins About Who Will Pay for Suez Canal Crisis
Tug boats pull the Ever Given containership along the Suez Canal after dislodgement on March 29. (Islam Safwat/Bloomberg News)
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The Suez Canal may be open again, but the battle over damages from the waterway’s longest closure in almost half a century is just beginning.
With cargoes delayed for weeks if not months, the blockage could unleash a flood of claims by everyone affected, from shipping lines to manufacturers and oil producers.
“The legal issues are so enormous,” said Alexis Cahalan, a partner at Norton White in Sydney, which specializes in transport law. “If you can imagine the variety of cargoes that are there everything from oil, grain, consumer goods like refrigerators to perishable goods that is where the enormity of the claims may not be known for a time.”
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