Container ship in Suez Canal loosened again, but shaft still ‘stuck’ | Now

The container ship Evergreen, which had blocked the Suez Canal in Egypt since Tuesday, is partially floating again. An employee of InScape Shipping, a maritime service provider, said this Monday morning. Ann Weaselfinder You can see the ship is almost straight. However, Boskalis CEO Peter Bertovsky said Monday morning that the ship’s hull was still “stuck” in the mud. NOS Radio 1 News.

The largest ship was partially separated from the Dutch SMIT Salvage, part of the excavation company Boscalis, with the help of duckboats. According to Berdowski, turning the ship around is the easiest part of the process.

The ship is having difficulty gliding, which is still “firmly with its head in the clay,” said Boscalis CEO. “The challenge is still ahead because there you have to let the ship slide over the clay layer and there is a huge load on it.”

There were at least eleven towers in the tug to float the ship. The ship’s drivers were removed by trenches from the soil in the Suez Canal. To reduce the weight of the ship, a crane was used to unload the containers from the ship.

It is not yet clear how long it will take to send traffic back through the canal.

There was heavy traffic congestion of waiting ships due to traffic congestion

The 400-meter-long and 224,000-ton Evergreen flew into the Suez Canal on Tuesday and ran through the main shipping lanes between Asia and Europe. The congestion created a large array of ships waiting on both sides of the canal. The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said more than 320 ships, including container vessels and oil tankers, were waiting Sunday afternoon.

About 12 percent of the global commodity trade passes through the Suez Canal. Typically, the 193-kilometer waterway between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean carries goods worth about $ 10 billion (approximately 8 8.5 billion) every day. A prolonged siege will have major consequences for world trade, for example, supply problems for stores and shortages of certain goods in industry.

Some shipping companies chose to sail their ships around the South African Cape of Good Hope due to the siege. Container carriers such as Mersk and CMA GGM made that decision to avoid siege.