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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
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 ...
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.
A cargo ship has been wedged in the Suez Canal for two days, sealing off the waterway in a crisis that could have major consequences for global trade. A new Suez crisis: How a ship got stuck in ...
At 1,300 feet long and 164 feet wide, the ship wedged into one of the world's busiest shipping lanes is a monster of a problem, and there's no easy way to solve it.
Engineers on Monday “partially refloated” the colossal container ship that continues to block traffic through the Suez Canal, a canal services firm said.
The massive container ship lodged in the Suez Canal may be disrupting global supply chains for weeks to come, but we'll at least have memes to float us through. Ever Given, a vessel nearly twice ...
A container ship blocking the Suez Canal like a "beached whale" may take weeks to free, the salvage company said, as officials stopped all ships entering the channel on Thursday in a new setback ...