End of Suez Snarl Marks Beginning of New Stress on Global Trade

Now removed from the Suez Canal’s main channel, the Ever Given leaves in its wake several weeks or months of disruptions across a world economy where the pandemic revealed both the sturdy backbone of global trade and an Achilles’ heel.

“It’s not a cork-out-of-a-bottle moment,” said Peter Aylott, director of policy at the U.K. Chamber of Shipping. “We could still be days away from the canal being completely free.”

The reopening kicks off a new wave of stress on supply chains -- the intertwined network of ships, ports, trucks, trains and warehouses that shuttle products from a factory on ...