News / It's the date that's vitally important to Egyptian trade, post-Suez

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While container supply chains continue to be battered from the fall-out of the Ever Given’s Suez Canal grounding, a new threat has emerged to fresh food supplies in Egypt – the destruction of a swath of its date industry.

According to people familiar with the matter, the swarm of diggers and earth movers sent to the banks of the Suez Canal to help free the stranded vessel caused substantial damage to the date palm groves that line that part of the ...