/ world today news/ Someone is amused by how the clumsy ship “Evergreen” is stuck in the Suez Canal. However, the implications for the global economy may not be so funny.
Analysts are already watching the pound fall. So: the ship blocked the channel, so other ships fell in line. And there are almost more than 320 such ships.
– according to Bloomberg, the daily losses due to the blocked channel are about 9.6 billion dollars
– More than 13 million barrels of oil, including Russian (a total of $800 million), are stuck in the jam
– Already on Friday, the price of oil rose by 4%.
– Due to the weekly blockage of the Suez Canal, the growth of world trade may decrease during the year by about 1.4 percentage points, which is equal to 230 billion dollars, according to analysts of the insurance company “Allianz”.
Meanwhile, Russia has offered to assist Egypt in removing the container ship.
It is known that 10 tugboats are currently trying to get the ship out of the shoals. The head of the Suez Canal Administration, Osama Rabia, noted that the situation is complicated by the size of the ship and the number of containers on it.
The ship was heading from China to the Netherlands and was carrying about 224,000 tons of cargo, but ran aground on Tuesday, blocking traffic along the canal connecting the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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