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Also, this doesn't help things: "Suez Canal Blocked After Giant Container Ship Gets Stuck"

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/world/middleeast/suez-can...

100 ships stuck behind it.

When it rains, it shit pours...

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26560319 where this was posted earlier today.

Someone there posted https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9811000 for real-time status, which seems to show the ship is still stuck.

Or, when something hits the media curve, people become more aware of other things like it (which were happening all along).

Ah yes, entirely true. I wouldn't have come across this news if I didn't go down this container rabbit-hole.

Not only that, but when news is slow things get reported on that happen all the time but never get talked about normally.

I don't think that's the case here, though - it has been reported that this may well be the first time it has happened in the canal's 150 year history.

In what way? I think ships get stuck for a day or so every couple of years. Maybe the first time it’s been this long?

There were blockages in 2016 and 2018.

This bad? Who knows at this point.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-24/suez-bloc...

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