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Several ships have turned around and embarked on the long and expensive journey around Africa, rather than heading towards the blocked Suez Canal. The diversion can take up to two weeks and costs several million in fuel costs.
FULL STOP: Here is “MV Ever Given” blocking the narrow Suez Canal. More than two days after being grounded, salvage crews are still struggling to free the ship.
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Work to free the ship will continue until at least Wednesday of next week, sources familiar with the salvage operation told Bloomberg on Friday morning.
At the same time, two US natural gas tankers on their way to Asia have turned in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean to sail around the Cape of Good Hope, according to Bloomberg.
Additionally, shipping giants AP Møller-Maersk and Hapaq-Lloyd are considering doing the same.
One of the ships that has now turned around to go around Africa is an Evergreen ship, a sister ship to the ship that blocks the Suez Canal, according to the Financial Times.
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The Red Sea ships must now also consider whether they want to wait in the Suez Canal or whether to take the long route around Africa.
It is the fear that the ship “MV Ever Given” will remain stuck in the Suez Canal for a long time, which means that more and more shipping companies are considering whether the long way around Africa is more favorable.
Here the ship gets stuck:
Expensive detour
The journey around the Cape of Good Hope is estimated to take an additional 10-15 days. But it is not the only difficult decision to be made, the 9,600 kilometer route also costs a huge amount of money.
For a supertanker that will supply Middle Eastern oil to Europe, it is supposed to cost up to $ 300,000, equivalent to 2.58 million crowns, in fuel costs alone, according to Bloomberg.
On top of all that, yacht charter prices have risen sharply in the days after the Suez Canal was blocked.
The ships are anchored in a row in anticipation of “MV Ever Given” being released from the Suez Canal.
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Destroy the ferry in 2019
The ship “MV Ever Given” has gotten stuck in the Suez Canal after it encountered a sandstorm on Wednesday night.
The ship is among the largest container ships in the world and it is now questionable whether the size of some large container ships has become too large. Among other things, the ship will not go through the well-known Panama Canal.
Three years have passed since the ship was launched, but it is not the first time that an accident has occurred with the ship. In 2019, “MV Ever Given” damaged a ferry in Hamburg after being too close to a ferry dock when it passed. The reason then, as now, must have been high winds, writes Hamburger Abendblatt, according to the Financial Times.
71 containers that are now on board the ship have a place of arrival in Norway, Greencarrier told NRK on Thursday.
– These are goods like bicycles, hot tubs, car tires, display cases and rice, Marius Lien at Greencarrier Liner Agency Norway told the state channel.
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Connecting Europe with Asia
More than 200 ships are now awaiting the reopening of the Suez Canal. This is everything from container ships to tankers and other types of vessels.
According to the Norwegian Shipowners Association, there are 16 Norwegian-owned ships in the queue.
The Suez Canal is especially important for shipping because it is by far the shortest route between Europe (the Mediterranean) and Asia (the Red Sea).
The 193-kilometer-long canal was opened in the late 19th century and was upgraded in 2015, when a 72-kilometer central area was upgraded so that oncoming traffic could pass each other.
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