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Finally! Workers free stricken container ship blocking Suez Canal

The giant-sized vessel has halted commerce in the vital waterway for nearly a week.

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2021-03-29 14:37
in World News
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Workers have successfully set free a colossal container ship that for nearly a week has been stuck sideways across the Suez Canal, one of the world’s most crucial arteries for trade.

Leth Agencies said that the vessel had been refloated on Monday.

Helped by the peak of high tide, a flotilla of tugboats managed to wrench the bow of the skyscraper-sized Ever Given from the sandy back of the crucial waterway, where it had been firmly lodged since last Tuesday.

Tugboats were pulling the vessel toward the Great Bitter Lake, in the middle of the waterway, where it will undergo inspections.

With canal transits stopped, Egypt has already has lost over 95 million US dollars in revenue, according to the data firm Refinitiv.

Clearing the backlog of ships waiting to pass through the canal would take over 10 days, Refinitiv added.

Earlier a partial freeing of the vessel was greeted by the sound of tugboats in the canal sounding their horns in celebration.

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Even as salvage work was still ongoing, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi portrayed the development as a victory in his first comments on the stranded vessel.

“Egyptians have succeeded in ending the crisis,” he wrote on Facebook.

Related: Best memes as Suez Canal maritime traffic jam grows to over 200 ships

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