The sleepy farming village of Amer overlooks the Suez Canal. This March, the village was suddenly thrust into the limelight after the Ever Given—a colossal container ship—got stuck nearby. It was a windy morning when the Ever Given got wedged sideways in a single-lane stretch of the canal and clogged one of the world’s most vital waterways. That created a massive traffic jam that held up $9 billion a day in global trade and strained supply chains already burdened by the coronavirus pandemic. The villagers—like the rest of the world—have not seen anything like that before.