Ever Given Suez Canal Blockage
23 March 2021 – 29 March 2021 · Suez Canal, Egypt
The ultra-large container ship Ever Given ran aground across the Suez Canal and blocked the waterway for six days, halting an estimated 12% of global trade and creating a queue of hundreds of ships.
Why it matters
Exposed the systemic risk of concentrating traffic through a few critical chokepoints and triggered renewed focus on canal infrastructure, salvage capacity, just-in-time supply-chain resilience and vessel sizing limits.