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Date: 03/29/2021 7:07 am
The container ship “Ever Given” that ran aground in the Suez Canal is free again. After days of work, the freighter partially floats again. The salvage is still in progress, but more than 300 ships are now waiting to cross the channel.
The container ship “Ever Given”, which was wrecked in the Suez Canal, is floating again. The Evergreen freighter has been exposed and is currently being insured, the shipping company “Inchcape Shipping Services” announced on Twitter. According to a sewer service provider, the ship “partially floated again.” At first it was not clear when the “Ever Given” would be fully exposed.
The Suez Canal rescue and rescue teams tried to free the ship that ran aground on Tuesday last week with tugboats and excavators. High tide during last night’s full moon probably helped too. Ten tugs were involved and sand was sucked around the ship. The head of the canal authority, Osama Rabei, said the forces had continued their pulling maneuvers to expose the ship.
370 ships were in transit
The 400-meter-long container ship ran aground in the Suez Canal last week, blocking the important route in both directions. As a result, shipping companies began to let their ships sail the southern tip of Africa. According to the canal authority, around 370 ships, including 25 oil tankers, were trapped in the accesses to the canal. Following the success report, videos of relieved crew members of the other ships on the channel circulated online. “The ship is floating,” said a man on board a ship and raised his thumb.
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi had already ordered the partial unloading of containers to be prepared in case attempts to uncover them remain unsuccessful.
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Important trade route between Asia and Europe
The 193 kilometer long canal is the shortest connection between Europe and Asia and the crucial corridor for crude oil and goods imported to Europe. It shortens the route of merchant ships between Asia and Europe by several thousand kilometers. According to the canal authority, nearly 19,000 ships passed through the waterway last year. The one-day blackout caused the channel to lose between $ 13 million and $ 14 million in revenue every day.
According to the Kiel Institute for World Economy (IfW), 98 percent of container ships travel through the Suez Canal when moving between Germany and China. About eight to nine percent of all German goods imports and exports go through the Suez Canal.
