Six days in Suez: The inside story of the ship that broke global trade How the Ever Given and its billion-dollar cargo got stuck, got free, got impounded and got taken to court 29 June 2021 - 05:00 Kit Chellel, Matthew Campbell and K Oanh Ha The Ever Given container ship blocking transit along the Suez Canal in Ismailia, Egypt on March 28, 2021. Picture: ISLAM SAFWAT/BLOOMBERG London —Capt Krishnan Kanthavel watched the sun rise over the Red Sea through a dusty haze. Winds of more than 60km/h whipping off the Egyptian desert, had turned the sky an anaemic yellow. Fro...