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Pobeka

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2. Who pays for delayed cargo on all ships blocked? Anyone know?

Reply to KY_EnviroGuy (Original post)

Sun Mar 28, 2021, 11:18 AM

Mar 2021

Does Evergreen eat the bill for not only the cargo delay on their on ship, but for all other ships waiting to proceed through the canal, or have to go around the tip of Africa instead?

I suspect the other ships have to pay for their own losses, but I hear maritime law can be weird.

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Suez Canal: Why is freeing the stranded ship so complicated? An expert speaks. [View all] KY_EnviroGuy Mar 2021 OP

Their premise of UpInArms Mar 2021 #1

Who pays for delayed cargo on all ships blocked? Anyone know? Pobeka Mar 2021 #2

As always, we consumers will ultimately pay via inflation (socializing the losses). KY_EnviroGuy Mar 2021 #3

Weirder than you can imagine. Basically, everyone pays. They can all sue the vessel "in rem" for... TreasonousBastard Mar 2021 #4