The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has announced that the stuck container vessel Ever Given has been freed from the shoreline, allowing the vessel’s direction to be straightened by 80%.
The Dutch firm Smit Salvage, along with rescue workers from the authority, has been using tugboats to remove the rear of the 400m-long vessel from the canal bank, reported the BBC.
To speed up the process, dredgers have also been excavating sand and mud from under the vessel’s bow.
The SCA added that the vessel had...
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