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Sunday, 28 March 2021

Financial Times

• Suez Canal head warns stricken cargo ship may need unloadingPlan C would delay reopening of waterway by weeks and cause severe disruption to supply chains

The Guardian

• Suez canal: Syria 'rations' fuel as efforts to free stuck ship failSyria oil ministry restricts supply as canal chief says technical or human errors may have been behind stranding of the Ever GivenSyrian authorities say they have begun rationing fuel as the blockage of the Suez canal stretched into a sixth day, delaying vital shipments and worsening the country's oil shortages.Syria has been mired in civil war since 2011 and faces a severe economic crisis. It had already announced a more than 50% rise in the price of petrol in mid-March.

Times Online

• The giant ship clogging Suez, the world’s trade artery [subscription]A shipping container longer than the Empire State Building is tall is blocking the canal, costing billions of pounds in lost trade every day. But how did it crash? And can it be salvaged?

City AM

• Suez Canal: Grounded ship could be freed by start of next weekA giant shipping container blocking the Suez Canal could be freed by the start of next week, a firm working The post Suez Canal: Grounded ship could be freed by start of next week appeared first on CityAM.

Mail Online

• Astonishing satellite image reveals the vast bottleneck of ships waiting to get through SuezThis astonishing satellite image reveals for the first time the vast bottleneck of ships waiting to get through Suez.

Belfast Telegraph

• Two attempts to free Ever Given cargo ship in Suez Canal failA giant container ship remained stuck in the Suez Canal as authorities made new attempts to free the vessel and reopen the crucial waterway.

London Evening Standard

• Enormous ship blocking Suez Canal moves slightly for the first time since running aground321 vessels are waiting in transit

C.N.N.

• What it's really like steering the world's biggest shipsSome of the world's biggest oceangoing vessels seem more like cities at sea than actual ships, so maneuvering these massive beasts -- from cruise ships to container vessels like the one currently blocking the Suez Canal -- is a tricky process fraught peril. This is what it's like to be at the helm of one of these leviathans.