"We pulled it off!" said Peter Berdowski, CEO of Boskalis, the salvage firm hired to extract the Ever Given.
The tugs blared their horns in jubilation as they guided the Ever Given through the water after days of futility that had captivated the world, drawing scrutiny and social media ridicule. "Today, the Egyptians have succeeded in ending the crisis of the delinquent ship in the Suez Canal despite the tremendous technical complexity that surrounded this process from every side," he tweeted.Salvage teams on Monday finally freed a colossal container ship stuck for nearly a week in the Suez Canal, ending a crisis that had clogged one of the world's most vital waterways and halted billions of dollars a day in maritime commerce.Ī flotilla of tugboats, helped by the tides, wrenched the bulbous bow of the skyscraper-sized Ever Given from the canal's sandy bank, where it had been firmly lodged since March 23. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi lauded the effort on social media. Videos showed tugboats blaring their horns in celebration.
"This was the result of successful push and tow maneuvers, which led to the restoration of 80% of the vessel’s direction," the Egyptian-owned Suez Canal Authority said in a statement. The stern of the Ever Given, which had been grounded about 4 yards from the bank, finally was swung more than 100 yards from shore earlier Monday. Workers dredged 30,000 cubic meters of sand – enough to fill about a dozen Olympic-size swimming pools – while more than a dozen tugboats labored for days to free the ship. The ship, almost as long as the Empire State Building is tall, spun around and ran aground in high winds last Tuesday. The Panamanian-flagged cargo ship weighs 220,000 tons, is nearly a quarter-mile long and carries 20,000 containers. How the ship get stuck in the Suez Canal: The world's heaviest traffic jam consumers will likely see little effect on prices of U.S. "Since most of the imports blocked over the last week are heading to Europe, U.S.
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