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Dannielle Maguire with wires

Another ship got stuck in the Suez Canal. But the Affinity V blockage was short-lived compared to the Ever Given saga

Traffic in the Suez Canal was briefly halted after an oil tanker ran aground in the busy shipping lane on Wednesday night, local time.

The tanker, named Affinity V, is about 252 metres long and 45 metres wide.

It was stuck in a single-lane stretch of the route, which is used by roughly 15 per cent of the world's shipping traffic.

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