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Covid-19 pandemic forced us to be creative on how we ship

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Maersk East Africa Managing Director Carl Lorenz (left). [File, Standard]

During the Suez Canal crisis that hit the shipping industry, Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping line and vessel operator, was just two days away from redirecting its Europe bound containers through Cape Town. But the Evergreen ship was cleared before Maersk could make the big shift.

Maersk East Africa Managing Director Carl Lorenz recalls the incident saying when things go wrong in the supply chain, like the Suez Canal incident, that is when the rubber actually meets the road.

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