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The rescue of the ship The cargo that has been stranded in the Suez Canal in Egypt since yesterday is being carried out by an elite team, with serious difficulties in unblocking the canal that connects the Red Sea with the Mediterranean and which is of particular importance in the transport of goods from Asia and Europe. .
The size of the Ever Given ship, about 400 meters long and more than 200 thousand tons, is the main obstacle for this team that resumed work to return the ship to the seas.
Until now, the team hired for this mission, the Dutch SMIT Salvage BV used to saving ships during storms at sea, is still unable to move the ship and some experts point out that we may have to wait until Monday. Ever Given can carry more than 20,100 steel boxes, making it one of the largest ships of its kind, according to Jayendu Krishna, director of Drewry, cited by Bloomberg. These boats can be longer than the Eiffel Tower and larger than three football fields.
Helping the Dutch team is the Japanese company Nippon Salvage, according to Bloomberg, which quotes people with knowledge of the matter.
For now, the main mission of the rescue team is to remove weight from the boat, how to remove the water from the ballast, which is the water that is placed in the holds to give balance and stability to the boat when it is empty.
The image captured via the Vessel Finder website shows how the stranded ship is already causing severe maritime traffic congestion in this region.
According to Aljazeera, the ship ran aground at 5:40 a.m. Tuesday, after the hull became stuck in the wake of strong gusts of wind.
According to the maritime tracking website VesselFinder, the ‘Ever Given’, built in 2018, made a voyage between China and Rotterdam, in the Netherlands.
Worldwide, there are about 180 vessels similar to this one that can carry more than 15,000 containers each, according to Um Kyung-a, an analyst at Shinyoung Securities in Seoul. A ship that can carry 20,000 containers costs about $ 144 million and those carrying 23,000 cost more than 150 million, Drewry estimates.
The Suez Canal, inaugurated in 1869, guarantees the passage of 10% of international maritime trade. About 19,000 ships used the passage in 2020, according to the Suez Canal Authority (SCA). Sea crossing is an essential source of income for Egypt, which benefited from $ 5.6 billion in fees last year.
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