![]() Visibility plummeted and wind gusts reached speeds of up to 31 miles per hour. The Ever Given, which is owned by the Japanese company Shoei Kisen Kaisha, was on its way to the port of Rotterdam from China when it became stuck after a sandstorm blew through the region. If the Panamanian-flagged ship isn’t freed soon, it could spell disaster for a global shipping industry already hobbled by the effects of COVID-19. “That accident shuts down all lanes of travel, and everything will then start to back up.” “It’s just like having an accident on the interstate,” Donald Maier, the Dean for the School of Maritime Transportation, Logistics, and Management at the Cal Maritime, tells Pop Mech. Two days later, more than 100 container ships are still waiting at each end of the canal as tug boats and dredgers struggle to free the Ever Given, which weighs 200,000 metric tons and stretches 1,300 feet long. It marks the end of an agonizing week for the maritime trade industry-one that saw losses as high as $10 billion per day, highlighted the frailty of an already strained global supply chain, and spurred a slew of incredible memes.Ī colossal container ship that ran aground in the Suez Canal on Tuesday has ensnarled one of the world's busiest shipping lanes in a marine traffic jam. Now that the ship is under way-thanks to high tides and a fleet of tug boats and dredgers-hundreds of vessels that have been stranded on either side of the canal are gearing up to resume their journey along the vital shipping corridor. ET : After 6 grueling days, crews have managed to wrench the Ever Given free from its perch in the Suez Canal. ![]() ![]() On Monday, crews finally excavated the humongous ship.The vessel, which belongs to the shipping company Evergreen Marine, became stranded in the waterway after facing high winds last Tuesday.For almost a week, a massive container ship called the Ever Given blocked the Suez Canal, preventing travel through one of the world's busiest shipping corridors.
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