'Podcasts' | 'Ever Given', this is how a single ship changed world maritime trade

Several boats are working to refloat the Ever Given, in March 2021. BOSKALIS

Two years ago, the

, one of the world's largest container ships, turned world shipping trade upside down when it got stuck in the Suez Canal.

She was as tall as a skyscraper and they even compared it to a beached whale.

For six days she blocked the passage of merchandise at a key point on the planet.

Every hour 400 million dollars are lost.

A fascinating story that continues in the courts today and that brought to light the deficiencies of a sector, that of maritime transport, which is quite unknown because it operates far from land.

But those days demonstrated the extent to which world trade depends on sea routes and exposed the working conditions in which many of those who make it possible live.

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