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Fuel crisis. a cnn investigation earlier this month revealed that saudi war ships had been preventing oil tankers from docking at the port, including vessels approved by a u.n. clearance mechanism. as part of the saudis ongoing war against iran backed houthis who control the territory where the vast majority of yemenis live. >> reporter: we witnessed firsthand the impact on hospitals across the country, struggling to keep their generators going. >> translator: the amount of fuel released to the country in 2020 doesn't even represent 45% of yemen's needs and now in the first quarter of 2021 we ...

And the longer this ship is stuck here, the more disruption there will be to global trade. a vast trafficjam continues to build, with more than 300 ships stuck on either side of the vessel, which is holding up £7 billion worth of goods each day. strong wind had been given as the reason for the grounding of the ever given, but today officials suggested other factors could have been to blame. translation: there could be a lot of mistakes but we can'tl say what they are now. the only mistake we can be sure of now is the wind and the sandstorm. this is not the main one, like i said, but the rest ...

Back to normal. there were fresh efforts yesterday to re—float a giant container ship blocking the suez canal — one of the world's busiest waterways. more than 300 ships are stuck on either side of the vessel, which became stranded on tuesday. our correspondent sally nabil reports. the operation to refloat the giant container ship blocking one of the world's busiest waterways, continues into the night in egypt's red sea. tug boats and dredgers have been operating here around the clock to try and dislodge this giant ship that has been blocking the suez canal for the past few days. we unders...

To the operation trying to free the ship. the operation to refloat the giant container ship blocking one of the world's busiest waterways, continues into the night in egypt's red sea. tug boats and dredgers have been operating here around the clock to try and dislodge this giant ship that has been blocking the suez canal for the past few days. we understand that huge amounts of sand have been removed to make room for the ship to move. congestion continues to pile up in this strategic waterway, and the longer this ship is stuck here, the more disruption there will be to global trade. a vast tra...

He highligted the implications that the blockage will have on the global shipping industry. the analysis as seen on this isn't quite as gloomy as perhaps some are saying that the minute it's cleared is going to take somewhere in the region of six or seven days to get the backlog out of the immediate canal area. but that's only the start of the problem, of course. the issue is one of timing as well post, you know, in the sort of pandemic recovery phase, the shipping business was starting to pick up so the suez canal was at was at maximum capacity. suddenly you've switched off all those arrivals...