Here’s the true story of the Ever Given, the mammoth shipping vessel en route from Malaysia to the Netherlands with a billion dollars worth of goods on board when it ran aground in the Suez Canal and nearly brought the global supply chain to an immediate halt.
It’s a great long read from Bloomberg Businessweek and hits on the strategic importance of the Suez Canal in global commerce, how it came to be, and profiles of some of the captains that navigate more than 19,000 container ships annually through Egypt’s narrow (and shallow) sea passageway.
