Summary
On the day the Suez Canal gets blocked by a massive container ship, Adam decides to call up his favourite shipping expert, Michelle Wiese Bockmann. And Phil Prentice, from the High Streets Task Force, talks through what might happen to the UK hughstreet after John Lewis announces that a load of its shops have permanently closed.
Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with Ben Cooper producing. The Studio Director is Emma Crowe. Dino Sofos is the Editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, huge news on the Suez Canal because a huge ship has got stuck right in the middle |
| 0:12.2 | of it, causing a tanker tail back and other things that aren't tankers, which calls for |
| 0:18.5 | our favorite shipping journalist, Michelle Veezy-Bockman, who is markets editor and analyst |
| 0:23.2 | at Lloyd's List, the world's oldest shipping news service. |
| 0:25.8 | Hello, Michelle. |
| 0:26.8 | Hi, Adam. |
| 0:27.8 | Busy day in the shipping news world. |
| 0:29.3 | Crazy day. |
| 0:30.3 | Always a crazy day when things like this happen. |
| 0:33.2 | Have you worked out how this actually managed to occur? |
| 0:36.6 | Well, we kind of have and we kind of have and we've had conflicting information. |
| 0:41.1 | So it appears from comments made by the Vessel's owner and by the Vessel's operator that the |
| 0:48.1 | wind strength was pushing the vessel off course. |
| 0:51.7 | But then we had a look at the navigational rules and the ship was number five in a corn |
| 0:57.2 | boy that was going through the canal because these transits are arranged in convoys. |
| 1:02.5 | So that appears to be at odds as if it was number five in the queue. |
| 1:08.4 | And the other thing is that the other four ships would have been blown off course as |
| 1:12.1 | well. |
| 1:13.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.1 | And then of course you have navigational rules that says if a Vessel is more than 210 |
| 1:20.7 | feet wide, if wind speeds exceed 10 knots, then the vessel can't go through. |
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