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The “Ever Given” grounding

in the Suez Canal from

the perspective of project cargo

How to avoid the problems and the financial and legal consequences that such
a marine incident might cause to the shipments for the EPC General Contractors

Enrico Salvatico, (the “Project Cargo”) reaching the project sites around
Partner, Studio Legale Mordiglia the world. Despite the great improvement in the
Head of ANIMP’s Transportation Section shipowners’ risk management and loss prevention
policies, incidents like the one recently occurred at the
he sea carriage is by far the means of large containership “Ever Given” whilst transiting the
transport most utilized by the players of Suez Canal are always possible and often have big
the industrial plants industry, namely impacts on the projects development. It is therefore
the EPC Contractors and the worth making a practical exercise and try to imagine
International Freight Forwarders, to get what problems such an incident might have caused to
T all the necessary materials and supplies said industry, focusing on specific issues arising from

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