Irish Examiner view: We take oceans’ gifts for granted

Despite huge advances in communications our economies are still dependent on cargo ships sailing the high seas

Even if it is apocryphal, that headline attribute to The Times of London, 'Channel fogbound; Continent isolated', is such a good fit in so many debates it will hardly die away. 

It was, in a more global way, revitalised when MV Ever Given blocked the Suez Canal for almost a week.