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Hamburg (dpa) - The blockade of the Suez Canal, which was disbanded around a week and a half ago, continues to whirl up the schedule of the Hamburg shipping company Hapag-Lloyd.
"Although the blockade was resolved relatively quickly, we are not yet back to normal operations," said CEO Rolf Habben Jansen on Thursday.
Not much would have been missing during the blockade and Hapag-Lloyd would have sent its ships on a detour around Africa.
"I think we were 24 to 48 hours away from this decision," said Habben Jansen.
However, only six Alliance ships would have made their way around the Cape of Good Hope.
The 400-meter-long container freighter “Ever Given” blocked the Suez Canal as one of the busiest routes in the world for seven days from March 23 to 29.
As a result, according to Hapag-Lloyd, 369 ships could no longer continue, including nine freighters from the Hamburg shipping company.
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