As climate change dries out Europe, the Netherlands, a country long shaped by its overabundance of water, is suddenly confronting drought.
Tag: Canals
On England’s Canals, Boaters Embrace the Peace and Pace of a Floating Life
More people are calling England’s canals — and the narrow boats used to navigate them — home as remote work options in the pandemic’s wake make a mobile lifestyle more possible.
How One of the World’s Biggest Ships Jammed the Suez Canal
Four months after the megaship Ever Given got stuck in the canal, neither the canal nor the shipping industry has addressed some of the most critical issues that led to the grounding.
Ship That Blocked the Suez Canal Is Moving On
The giant container ship had been held in the Suez Canal since March, as Egyptian authorities and the ship’s owners argued over compensation. On Wednesday, it finally began the journey out.
Settlement Is Reached Over Stuck Ship That Blocked Suez Canal in Egypt
International trade was jammed for nearly a week when the Ever Given blocked the waterway in March.
Amsterdam Works to Shore Up Its Crumbling Canals and Bridges
For the next two decades, the scenic city and tourist magnet is going to look more like one gigantic construction site.
Sliding in the Polls, Erdogan Kicks Up a New Storm Over the Bosporus
As part of a push to carve a canal alongside the waterway, Turkey’s president signaled that he could scrap a treaty that has kept peace in the region for decades.
Clearing the Suez Canal Took Days. Figuring Out the Costs May Take Years.
There will be finger-pointing and competing agendas as cargo companies, lawyers, insurers and government agencies try to sort out what went wrong when the Ever Given got stuck — and who must pay.
Suez Canal Is Open, but the World is Still Full of Giant Container Ships
As global trade has grown, shipping companies have steadily increased ship sizes — but the Suez Canal blockage showed that bigger is not always better.
‘A Very Big Problem.’ Giant Ship in the Suez Remains Stuck.
A small Egyptian village has a front-row seat to the unfolding effort to dislodge the container ship that ran aground in the canal, holding up $10 billion in global trade every day.