Ever Given
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Sep 16, 2026
Matt BrackenGUEST
... missiles, the same missiles that can hit ships in the Red Sea can hit a ship in the Suez Canal even easier.
Matt BrackenGUEST
And if, if a ship is sunk right in the middle of the Suez Canal, you know, the Ever Given, which was, like, five years ago, that evergreen container ship, it just went off course and dug into the bank.
Daniel DavisHOST
Yeah.
Matt BrackenGUEST
That was cleared up in a week or two because it never sunk.
Matt CoyneHOST
And when they do, it has to rise to a certain level of importance.
Matt CoyneHOST
You know, the Ever Given has to clog the Suez Canal for however long before, you know, normal, you know, the New York Times, CNN picks it up.
Holly BirkettGUEST
think we because we have such a privileged access to to people in the industry and we have kind of a close relationship with with so many people um who are making headlines like look at the VLCC market and people we know there um but also so we can we can cover those big stories in more granular detail than for example the the mainstream financial publications but something else that's also really important for us as a publication is kind of the community role um if you like and calling ourselves the local paper for an international industry and bringing people in this industry together and giving them a common focal point and something that they can all kind of discuss and look at and a common point of reference.
Holly BirkettGUEST
I think that's increasingly important for us as we go on.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Además del petróleo crudo y el gas, el estrecho de Bab el-Mandeb forma parte del principal enlace comercial entre Oriente y Occidente, con decenas de buques de carga que transitan por sus aguas cada día.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Un cierre tendrá un efecto similar al de los sucesos de 2021, cuando el buque de carga Ever Given, con bandera panameña, encalla y bloquea el canal de Suez.
speaker_1NARRATOR
A closure will have to an effect similar to that of the events of 2021, when the cargo ship Ever Given, with a Panamanian flag, A, ran aground and blocked the Suez Canal.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Un cierre tendrá un efecto similar al de los sucesos de 2021, cuando el buque de carga Ever Given, con bandera panameña, encalla y bloquea el canal de Suez.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Esto provocó graves cuellos de botella en las cadenas de suministro globales, lo que se tradujo en mayores costes y retrasos en las entregas de petróleo y una amplia gama de productos.
speaker_1NARRATOR
This led to severe bottlenecks in global supply chains, resulting in higher costs and delays in deliveries of oil and a wide range of products.
Matt BrackenGUEST
So you could, you could have a stationary target.
Matt BrackenGUEST
And we saw with the, the Evergreen ship, the Ever Given, a couple years ago, all that did was turn sideways a little bit and get stuck.
Matt BrackenGUEST
So they just had to bring in earth-moving equipment and scoop out some, you know, sand at each end and turn it with tugs.
Matt BrackenGUEST
That was easy.
RalphHOST
Then in 2021, a single cargo ship reminded us what was underneath.
RalphHOST
The Ever Given became wedged in the Suez Canal.
RalphHOST
For six days, one of the busiest trade routes on Earth was blocked.
RalphHOST
Ships backed up.
David PriessHOST
Let me close with one topic we've discussed at length in the past couple of years here on Lawfare, which is the global supply chain and the national security issues that relate to it.
David PriessHOST
We all recall the images of the Ever Given and the massive cargo ship that was stuck in the Suez Canal in March 2021.
David PriessHOST
We're not talking about the similarly named ship that ran aground in the Chesapeake Bay recently.
David PriessHOST
We're going to the one that became the source of hundreds, if not thousands of memes as the Suez Canal was blocked and hundreds of other massive cargo ships and other vessels were not able to get through the Suez Canal.
Juliette KayyemGUEST
It's more dangerous to go that way, but they know how to do it under the worry that the Suez will close.
Juliette KayyemGUEST
And they don't know why, right? I mean, the boom, as I said, the boom could happen.
Juliette KayyemGUEST
Who would have thought? In 2021, it would be the Ever Given, you know, turning the wrong way at the wrong moment and getting stuck.
Juliette KayyemGUEST
So the Ever Given shuts down the Suez.
Sal MercoglianoGUEST
And we keep getting reminders of it.
Sal MercoglianoGUEST
We keep seeing that whether it's Ever Given getting stuck in the Suez, Dali taking out a bridge coming out of Baltimore, or these geopolitical threats being put by the Houthis and now the Iranians, shipping is always under threat.
Sal MercoglianoGUEST
And I think for a lot of countries, they start to realize that.
James MinnickHOST
You know, both of those stories you talked about, had everybody that wasn't even following shipping captivated because they were consequential.
54 MINS LATER
Sal MercoglianoGUEST
And, you know, much like anything else, we get very, you know, very comfortable and dependent on things and we don't think about it.
Sal MercoglianoGUEST
But every now and then what we're seeing is a lot of visibility on incidents that are creating problems.
Sal MercoglianoGUEST
And I think understanding whether it's Ever Given in the Suez, whether it's Dali hitting the bridge in Baltimore, whether it's the Houthi or the Iranians attacking shipping in the Strait, it's really important to be able to get some context.
Sal MercoglianoGUEST
like to think I do, and I don't know if I do it well, James, but is just sit there and kind of make it understandable so that if you're a CEO of a company, you're a military leader, or if you're just living in central Kansas, you understand why shipping is so important to you.
Jayant JoshiHOST
It really is.
Jayant JoshiHOST
Like, when the Ever Given cargo ship got stuck in the Suez Canal, or during the massive logistical breakdowns of the early pandemic, global supply chains just froze.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
They completely locked up.
Jayant JoshiHOST
Yeah, and the immediate knee-jerk reaction across almost every industry was that resilience simply meant hoarding.
James RundleHOST
But it is only the latest reminder that global commerce relies on a handful of narrow waterways.
James RundleHOST
Five years ago, it was the Suez Canal, the container ship ever given, ran aground, bringing a primary trade artery to a dead stop.
James RundleHOST
More recently, Houthi missile strikes have forced container ships away from the Red Sea.
James RundleHOST
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped maritime routes across the Black Sea.
7 MINS LATER
James RundleHOST
For decades, global shipping relied on one core assumption.
James RundleHOST
If a route gets blocked, cargo can simply go another way.
James RundleHOST
But the Ever Given exposed the hard limits of that logic.
James RundleHOST
Ships could avoid the Suez Canal by sailing all the
Jørgen LianGUEST
First, very short.
Jørgen LianGUEST
I remember it was a holiday, right, when the Ever Given got stuck in the Suez Canal.
Jørgen LianGUEST
and you had this little excavator which was going to help the situation but nonetheless that was the first sign of how this might turn out and i remember in my discussions back then because because the inefficiencies that were building up on the container side i discussed that a lot with the uh with the investors and i was very vocal in saying this isn't going to last so we didn't think this was going to be a lasting event and that was back in 2021 when we turned negative and It's been a long time since, and it's still going strong.
Jørgen LianGUEST
So that was our first fault, I guess.
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