CAIRO - 27 March 2021: The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) will start the second attempt of refloating the aground vessel, EVER GIVEN, after it ran aground five days ago, Youm7 reported anonymous officials at the authority. A press conference is set to be held Saturday at 2:00 pm (Cairo time), where the head of the SCA Lieutenant General Osama Rabei will comment on the latest efforts that are being exerted to refloat the ship. Being stranded at this point, the ship resulted in the suspension of the international maritime trade through the canal. The SCA announced on Friday resuming efforts to re-float the ship, using 9 gigantic tugboats, including "Baraka 1" and "Izzat Adel", after the completion of the dredging work near the vessel’s bow using "Mashhour" dredge. In previous statement earlier Friday, SCA announced dredging 17,000 cubic meters of sand and mud by Mashhour dredger around the Ever Given ship’s bow, with rate of dredging reached about 87 percent.

Source: Egypt Today March 27, 2021 11:48 UTC