Vessels traveling the main shipping routes around the globe navigate other constrained passages, too: the Panama Canal, between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and the Strait of Malacca, connecting the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean, among many others.
The waterway is a choke point on the primary maritime route between Asia and Europe. The ship that launched 1,000 memes became a pandemic-era icon and, in the process, revealed the fragility of global supply chains.īut the Suez Canal’s vulnerability to disruption was well known to those in the shipping biz. In March 2021, the gargantuan container ship Ever Given lodged itself across the very same part of the canal and remained there for six days, causing a 350-vessel traffic jam and obstructing billions of dollars in trade. When the crude oil tanker Affinity V ran aground and blocked Egypt’s Suez Canal in August 2022, it seemed like an alarming repeat of last year’s Ever Given fiasco. Septem| 550 words, about 2 minutes Share this article Background photo by agefotostock/Alamy Stock Photo In Graphic Detail: Choked Off Ships around the world deal with the same kind of aggravation as commuters on terra firma-dreaded choke points where traffic comes to a standstill.
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