{"id":98278,"date":"2021-03-29T16:20:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T16:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=180000"},"modified":"2021-03-29T16:20:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T16:20:50","slug":"suez-canal-cargo-ship-is-afloat-but-its-not-plain-sailing-for-global-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/03\/29\/suez-canal-cargo-ship-is-afloat-but-its-not-plain-sailing-for-global-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Suez Canal cargo ship is afloat \u2013 but it\u2019s not plain sailing for global economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The gigantic cargo ship that ran aground and blocked the Suez Canal last week is afloat once again after a herculean salvage operation, but the damage to global trade will take months to fix.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the assessment of maritime expert Jan Hoffman at UN trade and development agency <a href=\"http:\/\/unctad.org\/feed\/view\/en\/Pages\/Home.aspx\" title=\"UN Conference on Trade and Development\" class=\"word-link\"  rel=\"noopener\">UNCTAD<\/a>, who also explains why the cost of sending freight around the world has increased dramatically during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/coronavirus\" title=\"Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)\" class=\"word-link\"  rel=\"noopener\">COVID-19<\/a> pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Here he is, talking to UN News\u2019s Daniel Johnson.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/03\/29\/suez-canal-cargo-ship-is-afloat-but-its-not-plain-sailing-for-global-economy\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gigantic cargo ship that ran aground and blocked the Suez Canal last week is afloat once again after a herculean salvage operation, but the damage to global\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,342,4,73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98279,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98278\/revisions\/98279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}