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The 400-meter-long Ever Given ran aground on Tuesday due to a sandstorm in Suez and has since blocked the Canal, through which almost 10% of international maritime trade passes.
Customers of shipping companies that have to transport their cargo from Asia to Europe are turning to Russia as an alternative route, as the Suez Canal remains blocked, a spokesman for a Russian transport company told Sputnik on Friday.
“We have received requests from customers passing their goods through the Suez Canal. “They are now considering the alternative of moving cargo from Asia to Europe via Russia,” said Fesco Deputy CEO Herman Maslov.
He also stressed that this alternative route has to do with the coastal city of Vladivostok in the Russian Far East, which is connected by rail to Europe, via Siberia.
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Meanwhile, the blockade of the Suez Canal after the sinking of the Ever Given has forced ships to even sail around Africa, while increasing the cost of shipping oil products. Even 20,000 cubic meters of sand may need to be removed from where the giant container ship is stuck.
Customers of shipping companies that have to transport their cargo from Asia to Europe are turning to Russia as an alternative route, as the Suez Canal remains blocked, a spokesman for a Russian transport company told Sputnik on Friday.
“We have received requests from customers passing their goods through the Suez Canal. “They are now considering the alternative of moving cargo from Asia to Europe via Russia,” said Fesco Deputy CEO Herman Maslov.
He also stressed that this alternative route has to do with the coastal city of Vladivostok in the Russian Far East, which is connected by rail to Europe, via Siberia.
Ship blocked the Suez Canal – Sputnik Greece, 1920, 24.03.2021
World
Suez: This is where the huge ship – Map – “stuck”
March 24, 2:10 p.m.
Meanwhile, the blockade of the Suez Canal after the sinking of the Ever Given has forced ships to even sail around Africa, while increasing the cost of shipping oil products. Even 20,000 cubic meters of sand may need to be removed from where the giant container ship is stuck.
