Container ship Ever Given grounds and blocks the Suez Canal

Transits, all vessel types, Suez Canal
-70%
Days to 90% of the pre-event level
6
Recovered on
2021-04-04
Transits, all vessel types, Suez CanalTransits, all vessel types, Suez Canal, 2021-01-12 (12 January 2021) to 2021-04-04 (4 April 2021): values ranged from 2 transits per day on 2021-03-25 to 88 transits per day on 2021-04-03, with a mean of 53.3 transits per day. The latest value, for 2021-04-04, was 87 transits per day. The shaded band marks the event window, 2021-03-23 to 2021-03-29.0204060801002021-01-122021-02-222021-04-04
Transits, all vessel types, Suez Canal, 2021-01-12 (12 January 2021) to 2021-04-04 (4 April 2021): values ranged from 2 transits per day on 2021-03-25 to 88 transits per day on 2021-04-03, with a mean of 53.3 transits per day. The latest value, for 2021-04-04, was 87 transits per day. The shaded band marks the event window, 2021-03-23 to 2021-03-29.

Source: IMF PortWatch (portwatch.imf.org), International Monetary Fund, using UN Global Platform AIS data. Statistics derived by World Freight Monitor. Terms. Retrieved 2026-11-10 (10 November 2026).

Transits, all vessel types, Suez Canal (transits per day).
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2021-01-1249
2021-01-1350
2021-01-1451
2021-01-1555
2021-01-1653
2021-01-1754
2021-01-1849
2021-01-1943
2021-01-2047
2021-01-2157
2021-01-2253
2021-01-2346
2021-01-2468
2021-01-2554
2021-01-2648
2021-01-2743
2021-01-2849
2021-01-2961
2021-01-3053
2021-01-3146
2021-02-0150
2021-02-0250
2021-02-0364
2021-02-0457
2021-02-0566
2021-02-0640
2021-02-0743
2021-02-0853
2021-02-0955
2021-02-1065
2021-02-1167
2021-02-1265
2021-02-1360
2021-02-1455
2021-02-1550
2021-02-1641
2021-02-1750
2021-02-1859
2021-02-1969
2021-02-2066
2021-02-2147
2021-02-2254
2021-02-2362
2021-02-2450
2021-02-2565
2021-02-2665
2021-02-2743
2021-02-2864
2021-03-0164
2021-03-0251
2021-03-0365
2021-03-0458
2021-03-0561
2021-03-0654
2021-03-0765
2021-03-0857
2021-03-0969
2021-03-1061
2021-03-1156
2021-03-1254
2021-03-1350
2021-03-1458
2021-03-1552
2021-03-1657
2021-03-1747
2021-03-1851
2021-03-1961
2021-03-2054
2021-03-2148
2021-03-2259
2021-03-2338
2021-03-2414
2021-03-252
2021-03-269
2021-03-279
2021-03-2810
2021-03-2933
2021-03-3065
2021-03-3163
2021-04-0177
2021-04-0277
2021-04-0388
2021-04-0487

This is a measured change in public data during the event window, compared with a baseline before it. It shows timing, not cause. We describe an event as causing a change only when an official source says so. Recovery time is a plain reading against the effect method's own baseline, not a method figure.

Container ship Ever Given grounds and blocks the Suez Canal on World Freight Monitor. Recovery time for every event.