SPLASH : The Suez Canal Legal Fight Ever Given by Carlos Luxul author of The Ocean Dove As the saga of the Ever Given in the Suez canal rumbles on, one thing has struck me: why haven’t we heard anything about a class-action law suit against the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) from a collective of the frustrated shippers and receivers?   I haven’t seen the manifest but with around 20,000 TEU s on board, it stands to reason that many of t he world’s leading corporations are likely to have been caught up in this - and while they may have a lot of power individually, they will have even more as a consortium.   While I’m no lawyer, it seems to me that the SCA is already guilty of flouting certain international laws and conventions. They are also making arbitrary and unreasonable claims against the ship’s ownership structure and, more specifically, the innocent parties caught up in it - the beneficial cargo owners. All this suggests there are solid grounds for action. Surely there...

  questions must be asked and lessons learned Nave Andromeda It sounded dramatic and the media duly ramped it. The essential ingredients were all in the mix - a ruthless band of shady foreign hijackers (surely terrorists if not mere pirates?), a shady foreign tanker under a shady Liberian flag, and a SpecialForces operation. But when the facts were revealed there was no injury, no loss of life and no damage to property, and neither the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth nor Southampton were subjected to an apocalyptic attack. The drama proved to be nothing more than a woeful tale of human despair in the all too familiar shape of lost souls seeking a better life. We should be grateful for the professionalism of the special forces, but we must also question why it happened at all. Firstly, there are questions about the timescale of the military response and, secondly, there are questions about why stowaways were still on a ship that was a few miles from British shores when it had visited b...