Suez Canal blockage may affect some of Vietnamese business, say authorities | Malay Mail

Tuesday, 30 Mar 2021 03:31 PM MYT

First Secretary of the Vietnamese Embassy in Egypt and head of the embassy’s Trade Office Nguyen Duy Hung said that there is currently no official statistics on the number of Vietnamese commodities exported to other countries on ships waiting off the Suez Canal, as a number of shipping companies such as Maersk and CMS CGM decided to divert ships round Cape of Good Hope to Europe with the calculation of faster time.

The 200,000-tonne MV Ever Given veered off course in the Suez Canal on March 23. The incident causes global economic losses of up to US$9 billion each day, worsening the supply chain which is seriously affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

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