A tanker getting stuck used to be more the domain of niche business news, but that was before the Ever Given, so all eyes were soon on the Affinity V tanker's plight in the Suez Canal. On Wednesday, the 250-metre long Affinity V tanker was bound.
A letter published in
The Echo, earlier this year, suggested that if something fishy was really going on then another major shipping canal would soon be blocked. Since then, the Suez Canal was again blocked; on 28 May when the
Maersk Emerald broke down with engine trouble in the Suez Canal and quite oddly, on the very same day, all maritime traffic was stopped in the busy Bosphorus Strait, when the crude oil tanker
RAVA broke down owing to mechanical trouble. See, it did happen, as previously suggested.
Another one of the thousand new and real issues that will affect you, is the now two-year bottleneck delay, in production of computer chips used in phones, cars and food harvesting and production equipment. This bottleneck will make itself apparent, over the next two years, in decreased availability of goods.
A container ship broke down in the Suez Canal on Friday but was refloated and repaired with no impact on traffic in the waterway, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said. The 353-metre (1,158-foot) Maersk Emerald experienced sudden engine failure near Ismailia during its passage southwards through the canal but was refloated by tugs and went .