The stranded container ship which ran aground in the Suez Canal on 23 March has been successfully re-floated at 04:30 local time, following an operation that included up to 13 tugs and two dredgers removing more than 27,0000 tonnes of mud from beneath the ship’s bow.
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Efforts continued Sunday to dislodge a massive container ship that ran aground in the Suez Canal during a windstorm six days ago and is blocking hundreds of cargo vessels, but there is no immediate end in sight to the shipping crisis as the ripple effects pile up.
Two more large tug boats joined the operation to refloat the 20,000-TEU Ever Given, and there are reports that the vessel was moved about 95 feet so far with the help of dredging vessels and onshore diggers. The next refloating effort...
Salvage teams from the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) have said that they have successfully moved the bow of the stricken ship five metres as the tide rises, but the best chance for removing the vessel will come later today as more powerful tugs arrive and the high tide aids the recovery.
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Hopes of re-floating the stranded 20,388TEU Ever Given following this weekend increased when salvage teams used Suez Canal tugs and succeeded in freeing the stern and rudder section of the vessel.
Suez Canal tugs are assisting in trying to complete the re-floatation, which will be further assisted by the high tides on Sunday and Monday, of the Ever Given. Two more tugs will also arrive on the scene on 28 March to assist with the operation.
However, the key to the operation, according to a Containe...
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Everybody has an opinion — and social media allows for those opinions to be shared globally and instantly. In the case of the Ever Given stuck in the Suez Canal, there has been a flood of conjecture, lampoons and memes. (Yeah, we’ve seen the one with Austin Powers many times. Please don’t share it with us again.)
Apparently, the folks at the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) are seeing them as well. The SCA, of course, has its hands full trying to get the massive Ever Given, with a carrying capacity of...
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A containership operated by Taiwan’s Evergreen Marine Corporation ran aground while transiting the Suez Canal on Tuesday, March 23, causing vessel traffic in both ..
Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM) the technical manager of the stranded Ever Given has debunked reports that the vessel was partially afloat, following the ship’s grounding in the Suez Canal on 23 March.
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Container shipping experts have said that it could be a “good while” before the Ever Given is freed from its position blocking the Suez Canal, with the ship fast aground and its bulbous bow embedded in the canal bank.
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Royal IHC handed over the new cutter suction dredger Mohab Mameesh to Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority (SCA) on Thursday, March 18. The vessel is now ready for official ..
A 48 percent discount on the transit fee of giant crude oil tankers was announced by the Suez Canal Authority Monday, reports EMPC News.
Marketing incentives to attract sub-segmentsThe reduction applies to oil tankers with a static load of more than 250,000 tons, loaded from ports of northwest Europe to the port of Gibratar and bound for ports of Southeast Asia and the Far East, starting from Port Klang in Malaysia and east thereto.
The discount is part of marketing incentives provided by the...
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