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A new attempt to refloat the

Ever Given

container ship

and thus unblock the

Suez Canal

failed on the night from Saturday to Sunday, when the full moon and high tide were expected to lead to the success of the operation, one of the companies reported this Sunday. that operate in this maritime passage.

"Unfortunately, the state of the tide did not help to raise

Ever Given

tonight," wrote

Leth Agencies

, a company specializing in logistics services in different channels and straits of the world, on his

Twitter account

.

That company added that the

Suez Canal Authority

, which manages this Egyptian sea lane, will again try to unload the ship this Sunday with the help of tugboats and put the number of vessels waiting to cross the route at 326.

Some of the participants in the rescue operation had expressed their confidence on Saturday that last night was a "good time" to move the

Ever Given

, which has blocked the canal since Tuesday morning after having run aground on one of its bows. the banks being crossed in the pass.

Since then, attempts to refloat it have been unsuccessful despite the use of up to 14 tugs and dredgers and excavators to remove the sand around the bow of the

Ever Given

, which was traversed in the channel due, according to the first investigations, to strong winds and a sandstorm.

The captain of one of the tugboats involved said on Saturday that they had managed to move the bow of the ship about 17 meters to the north, towards where it was sailing when it collided with one of the banks.

Two more tugs

According to the cargo management company, the multinational

Bernhard Schutle Shipmanagement (BSM)

, two other tugs are expected to join this Sunday.

For its part, the

Maersk

shipping company

, the main one that operates in the

Suez Canal

, pointed out that, once the passage is released, it will take between three and six days to undo the great traffic jam that has been generated on this road that connects the

Sea Red

with the

Mediterranean

and that is the shortest sea route between

Asia

and

Europe

.

Some vessels are already diverting their route to the

Cape of New Hope

to bypass

Africa

, despite the fact that this route involves several extra days of navigation.

With a capacity for 224,000 tons of cargo, the 400-meter-long container ship of the Taiwanese company

Evergreen

and the Panamanian flag span the entire width of the canal, blocking the passage through this road through which 10% of world trade passes and the 25% of the freight containers.

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