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At least twenty ships carrying animals are delayed, according to maritime tracking data, because the Suez Canal has been blocked for days by a 220,000-ton freighter called Ever Given, writes The Guardian. The protracted nature of the crisis situation could be a serious concern for livestock, as live load feeding is increasingly difficult to resolve.
Ever Given has brought about the longest closure of the canal in decades: approximately more than two hundred ships have been blocked and those who arrive are forced to escape to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.
Georgios Hatzimanolis, a spokesman for the Marine Traffic tracking website, said that while some live cargo ships waited to enter the canal, three others were stuck at different points in the canal.
Five of the affected vessels shipped live animals in Spain and nine in Romania. This year, by the way, thousands of cattle have already been slaughtered due to various delays at sea.
In the morning, the Index wrote that the value of assets seized as a result of the lockdown can be measured in billions of dollars a day. Although local authorities are working hard to remove the blockade, they warned in advance that this could take days or even weeks, without causing a shortage of goods in a country.
The Suez Canal is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, and about ten percent of the world’s maritime trade passes through it.
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