In the Suez Canal, the bottom began to deepen around the container ship ashore.

Approximately 12% of the world’s cargo passes through the Suez Canal, connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea and providing the shortest maritime communication between Asia and Europe.

In the Suez Canal, work has begun to deepen the seabed around the shore-based container ship Ever Given. This was announced on Thursday, March 25, in a message from the Suez Canal Authority.

“Dredging is done around the perimeter of the vessel using dredgers. Excavators are also involved in the work, removing sand from the front of the container ship and giant tugs that try to drag it into the deepest part of the canal,” the report said.

The Office also expects the Dutch SMIT to advise Egyptian experts on technical problems of the container ship’s buoyancy.

It is reported that the company’s specialists arrived at the landing site of Ever Given stranded and participated in a meeting in which possible scenarios for the removal of the vessel were discussed.

Initially, it was assumed that the work to unblock the shipping route would take two to three days. However, later the boss of the Boskalis companies, whose specialists are trying to get Ever Given out of the shallows, Peter Berdowski, said it could take weeks.

“We may need to combine different methods: removing the containers, fuel and water from the ship, using tugboats and washing the sand,” he said in an interview with Reuters.

The great reconstruction of the Suez Canal is known to have been completed six years ago. Then the parallel path of the northern part of the waterway was discovered. The movement has become two-way, but not everywhere. According to experts, if the container ship got stuck closer to the Mediterranean Sea, near the Gorky Lakes, the movement of goods would slow down, but would not stop. But while the courts wait, we can say that there is a traffic jam from India to Italy.

Remember that the Suez Canal has been closed for three days, and if the problem is not resolved in 24 hours, the emergency will become the longest interruption in the operation of the most important shipping artery since 1973. One of the largest ships in the world. world, the “gold” class container ship Ever Given with a displacement of 220 thousand tons, on board of which there are about 20 thousand standard maritime containers, blocked the channel.

It was previously reported that on March 24 in Egypt, a container ship ran aground and blocked the Suez Canal.

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