Ship backlogs from Suez chaos could take months to clear
"Even when the canal gets reopened, the ripple effects on global capacity and equipment are significant," the world's largest container shipping company Maersk said in a customer advisory on Monday.
A handout picture released by the Suez Canal Authority on March 24, 2021 shows a part of the Taiwan-owned MV Ever Given (Evergreen), a 400-meter-long and 59-meter wide vessel, lodged sideways and impeding all traffic across the waterway of Egypt's Suez Canal.(photo credit: SUEZ CANAL AUTHORITY/HANDOUT/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES))ByREUTERS
