2021 Suez Canal obstruction
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The Suez Canal was blocked for six days from 23 to 29 March 2021 by the Ever Given, a container ship that had run aground in the canal. The 400-metre-long, 224,000-ton, 20,000 TEU vessel was buffeted
International Space Station image of Ever Given blocking the canal on 27 March 2021
Ever Given in March 2020
Typical cross-sections of the Suez Canal used for waterway navigation
ALP Guard seagoing tug 285 mt cont. bollard pull
Container ship
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A container ship is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. Container ships are a common means of commercial intermodal f
Two Maersk Line container ships
Container ships avoid the complex stevedoring of break-bulk shipping
The earliest container ships were converted T2-class tankers in the 1940s after World War II
Container ship Tan Cang 15 on the Saigon River in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam