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The Suez Canal was blocked for six days from 23 to 29 March 2021 by the Ever Given, a container ship that had run aground in the canal. [4]The 400-metre-long (1,300 ft), 224,000-ton, 20,000 TEU vessel was buffeted by strong winds on the morning of 23 March, and ended up wedged across the waterway with its bow and stern stuck on opposite canal banks, blocking all traffic until it could be freed ...
Salvage teams on Monday finally freed the 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 ...
The massive shipping container that has been stuck in the Suez Canal and partially halted global trade for nearly a week, has been floated by a team of salvagers. A team of tugboats worked for ...
A giant container ship remained stuck sideways in Egypt’s Suez Canal for a fifth day Saturday, as authorities made new attempts to free the vessel and reopen a crucial waterway whose blockage is ...
One of the trapped ships in 1973. From 1967 to 1975, fifteen ships and their crews were trapped in the Suez Canal after the Six-Day War between Israel and Egypt.The stranded ships, which belonged to eight countries (West Germany, Sweden, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Poland, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia), were nicknamed the Yellow Fleet after the desert sand that coated them.
The colossal container ship wedged in the Suez Canal for days has been dislodged, clearing the way for the waterway to reopen. Ship stuck in Suez Canal is freed, allowing vital waterway to reopen ...
The massive cargo ship that became wedged across the Suez Canal on Tuesday may have been partially refloated, but it isn’t going to budge for days or even weeks, the company hired to extract it ...
Container Ship 'Ever Given' stuck in the Suez Canal, Egypt - March 24th, 2021. Image is about 2.64 kilometers wide. Date: 25 March 2021, 15:35: Source: Container Ship 'Ever Given' stuck in the Suez Canal, Egypt - March 24th, 2021: Author: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [2021], processed by Pierre Markuse: Other versions