“We are working around the clock to move the ship, in two ways - towing and dredging ... We are preparing for the third scenario - reducing the cargo on the ship.

The third scenario is very difficult and will take a lot of time, ”RIA Novosti quotes the head of the channel’s administration, Osama Rabia, as saying.

According to Rabia, there are now 369 ships in the queue for the passage.

Earlier, the Russian ambassador to Cairo, Georgy Borisenko, said that Russia was ready to assist Egypt in the situation with the container ship Ever Given, which blocked the Suez Canal.