Images of the massive 400 meter-long container ship Ever Green running aground and blocking the Suez Canal are stunning. And the world is quickly learning how crucial that chokepoint is to global ...

WAHPETON, N.D. — Vineet Saxena welcomed news Monday, March 29, that the Ever Given, the massive container ship stuck for several days in the Suez Canal, had been freed. Saxena, executive vice ...

Why the Suez Canal is so important -- and why its blockage could be so damaging Since it was completed in 1869, the Suez Canal has been one of the world's most important bodies of water; a portal ...

SUEZ, Egypt — A maritime traffic jam grew to more than 200 vessels outside the Suez Canal and others began changing course as dredgers worked frantically to free a giant container ship that has been ...

The cost of blocking shipping for almost a week through one of the most crucial waterways on earth apparently comes in at right around $1 billion. And that's just the bill Egypt could soon be trying ...

A bulk carrier vessel became wedged Thursday in Egypt’s Suez Canal, briefly blocking traffic in one lane of crucial global waterway, Egyptian authorities said. The Suez Canal Authority said in a ...

CAIRO — The world’s biggest shipping company said Feb. 13 it sued a rival shipping line in a Danish court, seeking compensation for ship delays that resulted from the blocking of the Suez Canal by a ...

ISMAILIA, Egypt — Suez Canal authorities have announced the release of a hulking shipping vessel that blocked the crucial east-west waterway for nearly a week earlier this year. The Ever Given is ...

As efforts to dislodge the huge container ship stuck in the Suez Canal intensified Saturday, an animal-rights nonprofit is airing concerns over animals trapped in cargo vessels. Ships carrying ...

CAIRO >> The world’s biggest shipping company said Monday it sued a rival shipping line in a Danish court, seeking compensation for ship delays that resulted from the blocking of the Suez Canal by a ...

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court Tuesday rejected an appeal by the owner of a massive container ship of the court-ordered seizure of the vessel over a financial dispute. Egyptian authorities have ...

In Egypt, dozens of ships carrying oil and shipping containers are idled in the Suez Canal after a massive container vessel ran aground. The ship, which is nearly a quarter-mile long, has cut off ...