Ever Given finally arrives in Rotterdam after Suez block
By AFP
01 August 2021 |
8:57 am
The giant container ship MV Ever Given arrives into Rotterdam port, more than four months after it got stuck in Egypt's Suez Canal, blocking shipping in one of the world's busiest waterways.
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