{"id":48064,"date":"2022-09-01T10:17:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T01:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/01\/suez-canal-ship-stuck-blocked-again-affinity-v"},"modified":"2022-09-01T10:17:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T01:17:40","slug":"suez-canal-briefly-blocked-again-after-another-ship-affinity-v-becomes-stuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48064","title":{"rendered":"Suez Canal briefly blocked again after another ship, Affinity V, becomes stuck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tanker blocked canal for hours, close to where Ever Given container ship became stuck, disrupting supply chains for a week<\/p>\n<p>A tanker getting stuck used to be more the domain of niche business news, but that was before the Ever Given, so all eyes were soon on the Affinity V tanker\u2019s plight in the Suez Canal. <\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the 250-metre long Affinity V tanker was bound for Saudi Arabia when it ran aground close to the same spot in the narrow southern section of the canal in Egypt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/29\/suez-canal-attempt-re-float-ever-given-delay-salvage-tugboats\">where the Ever Given container ship caused a week-long halt to traffic <\/a>in March 2021, dominating global headlines and paralysing supply chains.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/01\/suez-canal-ship-stuck-blocked-again-affinity-v\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanker blocked canal for hours, close to where Ever Given container ship became stuck, disrupting supply chains for a weekA tanker getting stuck used to be more the domain of niche business news, but that was before the Ever Given, so all eyes were soo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2370,1980,783],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-evergrande","category-shipping-industry","category-singapore"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48065,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48064\/revisions\/48065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}