In Custodia Legis – Stuck in the Suez Canal – What are the Legal Implications? – “The following is a joint guest post by Elizabeth Boomer, an international law consultant, and George Sadek, a foreign law specialist, from the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. On March 29, 2021, the engineers of the Suez Canal Authority were finally able to restore passage through the Suez Canal after a 1,300-foot, 220,000-ton container ship that blocked it for almost a week, causing great disturbance to maritime commercial routes worldwide, was finally moved. The Suez Canal acts as a link between maritime commercial routes between the Mediterranean Sea in the north and the Red Sea in the south. It is 120 miles from the city of Port Said on the Mediterranean in the north and the city of Suez on the Red Sea in the south…”