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    Suez crisis: How a ship got stuck in the canal and what it means for global trade

    by Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times Mar 25, 2021 4 minutes

    BEIRUT — It's the mishap that stopped a thousand ships — well, at least a couple hundred so far. The mammoth container ship Ever Given remained beached in the Suez Canal on Thursday, blocking the vital waterway and placing a mega-sized obstacle in the path of a shipping industry already crippled by the COVID-19 pandemic.

    The Ever Given has been stuck since Tuesday, along with hundreds of other ships bearing billions of dollars' worth of goods and energy supplies. Executives the world over are wondering when the canal can resume normal operations, even as the ship has triggered a tsunami of jokes and memes on

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