EVER GIVEN STRANDING WILL CAUSE MAJOR LOGISTICS DISRUPTION, DESPITE SHIP BEING FREED, SAY EXPERTS
April 1st, 2021
The European garment sector has been growing uneasy about how the six-day stranding of the 400-metre-long cargo ship Ever Given in the Suez Canal will affect its supply chain. It has also been assessing the lessons for future contingency plans regarding such cargo transport pinch-points. Most garments imported into Europe reach the continent by ship, a majority in containers from Asia through the narrow Suez Canal, which is just 205 metres wide and links the Red Sea to the Mediterranean. The Ever Given became stuck on March 23 on its way to Rotterdam from ...
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