While many boats, about 300 on both sides of the canal at the time of this reporting, are waiting it out, shipping companies have diverted some vessels to take the old-fashioned way around Africa.

Extending south from Cape Town is the Cape of Good Hope, the peninsula that divides the Atlantic Ocean and False Bay (featuring numerous beautiful beaches as a result). Formerly an independent ...

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