Suez Crisis Is Over And Overblown But There Is An App For That

Suez Crisis Is Over And Overblown But There Is An App For That

Share to Linkedin An Egyptian woman takes photos of Evergreen's Ever Given container ship after being fully dislodged ... [+] from the banks of the Suez Canal on Monday. The vessel, a megaship the length of four football fields, was refloated and the Suez Canal reopened to traffic in the afternoon. The crisis in the Suez Canal appears to be over. It also appears to have been overblown. But before it ended, someone was clever and bored enough to create an app allowing you to compare the size of the Evergreen Ever Life to well-known landmarks. Really? There's an app for that? It had already been compared to the Eiffel Tower on its side. And, for the American audience, four football fields. And there was this: The containers stacked on the ship would, if stacked end to end instead, extend 75 miles. Why do I say it was overblown? Two reasons. First, it was easy to understand. A big ship that carries a lot of stuff got stuck sideways in the Suez Canal. You can explain that to a child. The photographs, the video, easily show the scale of the ship compared to tugboats (which the ship's captain had not