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’s an int