Suez Canal crisis: closure of the Suez Canal already traps more than 300 ships
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Map: The rescue of the ship stranded in the Suez Canal, live
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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