Ship's owner to handle Suez Canal blockage "in line with int'l law"

The Japanese company which owns a massive container ship that had blocked the Suez Canal said Tuesday it will handle the incident "in accordance with international law," a day after the vessel was dislodged and traffic in the vital international waterway resumed after nearly a week.Asked about possible compensation payouts involving the Panama-flagged ship, an official of ship-leasing company Shoei Kisen Kaisha Ltd. told Kyodo News, "We cannot comment on the matter as we have not heard anything in detail yet."The blockage of the Suez Canal by the 220,000-ton container ship Ever Given cost E…READ FULL ARTICLE