Evergreen container ship blocks Suez Canal traffic

Tweets of a ship “stuck sideways” in the Suez Canal may prompt skepticism. And then one sees the images. Indeed, a container ship is stuck sideways in the Suez Canal blocking both northbound and southbound traffic. 

The Ever Given is blocking traffic in the Suez Canal. (Image: MarineTraffic)

The ultra large container ship Ever Given has a carrying capacity of 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) and was en route from Yantian, China, to the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands when it...

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Giant container ship “Ever Given” rammed small ferry

In Hamburg, it came on Saturday (Feb. 9) morning on the Elbe to a ship collision. The 400-meter-long freighter “Ever Given” drove against a HADAG ferry, which lay at the pier Blankenese.

The reason for the collision said the police in the early evening, they suspect that the storm has pushed the container freighter to the side. First of all, there was talk of a “blackout” of the ship’s engine as a possible cause of the accident, which would have affected the steering gear as well. The police are...

http://container-news.com/giant-container-ship-ever-given-rammed-small-ferry/

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