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Based on (BBC News Mundo, 2021) the Suez Canal is one of the main maritime

crossings in the world for the transport of goods and raw materials. For this reason, it was

cause for concern that the Ever Given freighter was stranded on Tuesday in the Egyptian

infrastructure due to a technical failure, blocking the passage of the rest of the ships, also

we have to stand out the 12% of economy of the world goes along of this one.

¿What else makes important the Suez Canal to all the world? And ¿How is able to

generate a lot of influence? It´s the only place that directly connects the waters of Europe

with the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean and the countries of Asia-Pacific.

The block of this Canal in 2021 generated a direct impact on the supply of basic

food, fuel and oil inputs, this caused too shortages there and products to rise in price. For

example what happened with oil and its increase of 6%, for each day that the channel was
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blocked, adding as an indirect secondary factor would represent a congestion in European

ports, taking into account that 55,000 loaded containers (TEU) pass daily, which represents

that in these six days there were 330,000 dammed containers generating millionaire losses

for suppliers as well as for consumers and is This is where the kind of contract that buyers

had with sellers comes in and the kinds of policies they handled or not.

For me, all that happened is a really a new knowledge for all the humanity, if we

want to make a sustainable process of import and export different things as food,

construction materials, oil, etc. We have to keep in main all the future or actually problems

that can happen, taking this as an example, getting better the Canal ways, or just being

prepared for any issue.

BIBLIOGRAFÍA:

1. BBC News Mundo. 2021. 4 razones por las que el bloqueo del Canal de Suez

puede afectar al comercio mundial (y a tu bolsillo) - BBC News Mundo. [online]

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[Accessed 11 May 2021].

2. DÍAZ, L., 2021. Consecuencias del bloqueo del Canal de Suez para el precio del

petróleo. [online] RTVE.es. Available at:

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maritimo-precio-petroleo/2083507.shtml> [Accessed 11 May 2021].

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3.  Picheta, R., 2021. ¿Por qué el canal de Suez es tan importante? Te lo explicamos.

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