The blockage has caused a huge traffic jam for more than 200 ships at both ends of the 193km (120-mile) long canal and major delays in the delivery of oil and other products. A maritime traffic jam grew to around 321 vessels near Port Said on the Mediterranean Sea, Port Suez on the Red Sea and in the canal system on Egypt’s Great Bitter Lake ‘Complex’ operationĮgypt’s Suez Canal Authority said the Ever Given veered off course and ran aground on Tuesday when strong winds whipped up a sandstorm that affected visibility.
“Strong winds and weather factors were not the main reasons for the ship’s grounding, there may have been technical or human errors,” he also said.Įgyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly on Saturday thanked foreign partners for offers to help refloat the ship. He said authorities had not ruled out that “technical or human errors” could be behind the grounding of the vessel.
“We expect that at any time the ship could slide and move from the spot it is in,” he added.Ī maritime traffic jam grew to around 321 vessels near Port Said on the Mediterranean Sea, Port Suez on the Red Sea and in the canal system on Egypt’s Great Bitter Lake, Rabei said.
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Rabei also said that 14 tug boats were now operating, while rescue operations managed to dig enough into the soil to free the rudder and the propeller. He said they could not lay out a set timetable for when the ship might be dislodged but that he remained hopeful that a dredging operation could free the ship without having to resort to lighten it by removing its cargo. “The ship’s stern began to move towards Suez, and that was a positive sign until 11pm (21:00 GMT) at night, but the tide fell significantly and we stopped,” Osama Rabie told journalists.
The massive vessel got stuck in a single-lane stretch of the canal, about six kilometres (3.7 miles) north of the southern entrance, near the city of Suez.Įfforts to dislodge the ship had allowed its stern and rudder to move on Saturday, but it remained unclear when it could be refloated, the head of the canal authority told a press conference Saturday in Suez. The Ever Given, a Panama-flagged ship that carries cargo between Asia and Europe, ran aground Tuesday in the narrow canal that runs between Africa and the Sinai Peninsula. Thankfully, things aren’t quite as bad now in terms of crew changes.A giant container ship remains stuck sideways in Egypt’s Suez Canal for a fifth day as authorities prepare to make new attempts to free the vessel and reopen a crucial east-west waterway for global shipping. It’s not good by any stretch of the imagination for the crews, but being stuck for another four or five days or even two weeks is nothing when you’ve been stuck on board for eight or nine months because of COVID, not being able to disembark from ships to get back home, having to work beyond their contracts. The Evidence That Mark Meadows Flipped on Trump Ohio’s Special Election Could Have Been a GOP Blueprint. What’s Behind Amy Coney Barrett’s Surprise Vote on Ghost Guns? What does this mean for the crew members, either of the ship that’s stuck or the ones that have now been delayed, especially given all the strain they’ve already been under because of COVID?Ī New, Chilling Secret About the Manhattan Project Has Just Been Made Public But they bring in a lot of revenue for the Suez Canal, so I don’t imagine they’re going to be stopping them anytime soon. So, when something goes wrong with these big ships, there can be problems. We’re already seeing ships start to diverge around the cape, which means that those carriers think it’s going to take a while. Unfortunately, in the Suez Canal there’s not a huge amount of tidal range, so it won’t be a great help, but it’s still probably their best chance. When you’re trying to float something off, having more water underneath is all the better. We’re coming up to a spring tide at midnight on Monday, which is the highest water level they’re going to get. James Baker: If it’s not off by the next high tide on Monday, it could be a while. Joshua Keating: So, do you have any sense of how long this will take? Our interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. To talk about just how bad things could get-for the ship itself, seafarers, the shipping industry, and consumers around the world-I spoke with James Baker, container shipping editor at Lloyd’s List, the centuries-old London-based journal covering the global shipping industry.
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