The Elise blocked mouth of the Arun at Littlehampton after mooring broke but proved easier to shift
Located in a small seaside resort on the south coast of England, the harbour of Littlehampton rarely attracts comparisons to major international shipping routes.
But an incident early on Tuesday in the West Sussex town prompted unwelcome echoes of the Ever Given crisis in the Suez Canal, after an 80-metre ship came loose from a mooring and drifted across the channel, becoming solidly grounded across most of the mouth of the River Arun.
