CAIRO – 26 March 2021: Egyptian Suez Canal Authority (SCA) announced, Friday resuming efforts to re-float the delinquent ship "Ever Given" using 9 gigantic locomotives. Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, Lieutenant General Osama Rabie said that the towing efforts resumed using 9 gigantic locomotives including "Baraka 1" and "Izzat Adel", after the completion of the dredging work near the vessel’s bow using "Mashhour" dredge. The Ever Given ship, 400 meters long, 59 meters wide, and with a capacity of 224,000 tons ran aground due to bad weather and sandstorm and wedged diagonally across the canal. “Dredging works are carried out in accordance with the highest standards of navigational safety via maintaining a safe and permitted distance about 10 meters away from the ship. The authority also added that it is in contact with the Japanese company (Shoei Kisen Kaisha, Ltd), owner of the Ever Given ship, to resolve the crisis.

Source: Egypt Today March 26, 2021 19:41 UTC