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Monday, March 29, 2021
Canal service provider says container ship in Suez set free
A canal service provider says that 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 says the vessel has been refloated. 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 are pulling the vessel toward the Great Bitter Lake, in the middle of the waterway, where it will undergo inspections.
The ship is moving slowly but steadily north up the canal now. It looks like it’s completely free and sailing away from the spot it’s been stuck the last seven days. pic.twitter.com/0amhrJmYvg
— Raf Sanchez (@rafsanchez) March 29, 2021
#BREAKING: Ever Given stranded Suez Canal container ship freed – sources to @reuters pic.twitter.com/40EN7JWkT5
— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) March 29, 2021
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