Sunday 5 March 2023 · below the Index · spike
Container ship runs aground in Suez Canal
A container ship ran aground in the Suez Canal on March 5, 2023. Egyptian tugboats worked to refloat the vessel. Canal authorities reported that traffic was not impacted and the ship was subsequently refloated after a breakdown.
Peak 59.0 on Monday 6 March 2023. The shaded band is the incident window.
Where the attention came from
Media-led, both over the window and on the peak day. Social here is X alone — Bluesky only joins the series from July 2024 — so its level isn't directly comparable with today's series, though its share of this incident is real.
Bar = share of the extra attention over the whole window; the tick marks the share on the peak day alone, where the two differ.
How unusual it was
This was above 54% of all days since 2020, and the highest since Monday 20 February 2023.
How far it spread
Stayed in one vessel type — 1 of 6 vessel-type groups drew clearly more readers than usual.
Bars start at 1× — normal readership for that vessel type, the weeks before the incident. Grey = no clear lift. "Over time" shows each group's daily readers through the window; "All 12 articles" breaks the six groups back into their members.
How it was framed the frame glossary →
Lead frame: human drama. Trade press was 2% of in-scope coverage — the story had left the trade press and gone mainstream. (Historical coverage is scored on headlines only.)
Acting, or acted upon
In 91% of coverage shipping was the thing acted upon rather than the actor; 0% of it was strongly negative in tone.
What the coverage said
- Container Ship Refloated In Suez Canal After Breakdowngcaptain.com · 2023-03-05
- Cargo ship runs aground in Suez Canal, traffic not impactedyahoo.com · 2023-03-05
- Cargo vessel runs aground in Suez Canal, traffic not impacted: Authoritiesbusiness-standard.com · 2023-03-05
- Cargo ship refloated after running aground in Egypt's Suez Canal-Xinhuaenglish.news.cn · 2023-03-05
- Egypt refloats cargo vessel that ran aground in Suez Canalbignewsnetwork.com · 2023-03-05
- Suez Canal traffic not impacted after cargo ship runs agroundfox6now.com · 2023-03-06
Gold rule = a national or international outlet, not a trade title.
- social = X only before Bluesky (2024-07-01); not comparable with today's series
- tier C: only a Wikipedia article, GDELT sub-vocabulary term, or social per-term query fired — not yet confirmed as a real maritime incident (Phase C naming/is_maritime_incident does that).
- coverage scored on title only (no excerpt) — measured ~8pp frame precision cost vs title+excerpt (docs/HANDOVER-incidents.md §2.3)
- coverage filtered to articles matching this incident specifically (55/129 kept) — see coverage.filter.terms
Maritime Attention Index, incident: Container ship runs aground in Suez Canal, peak 59.0 on 6 March 2023. maritimeattentionindex.com/incidents/2023-container-ship-runs-aground-in-suez-canal/