A jammed container ship stopped navigation in the Suez Canal, one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes
Photo: Mmelouk, CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons
A large container ship is stranded and blocks ship traffic on the Suez Canal for hours.
The Ever Given , a Panamanian flagged container ship in route from China to the Netherlands, got stuck in the Egyptian canal on Tuesday , while traveling north, from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean.
Here’s a video of the gigantic container ship that is still single-handedly blocking world trade in the Suez Canal pic.twitter.com/XqNhoMIMsK https://t.co/i 55 oq 127 Li
– Evan Hill (@evanchill) March 23, 1200
Several tugs have crowded around the ship for hours, according to tracking data, without managing to unblock the massive vessel.
The tugs try to move the gigantic stuck ship, which has 400 m (1, 312 feet) long and 59 m (164 feet) wide.
The Ever Given, registered in Panama, travels from China and has as destination the port city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
The ship was trapped around 07: 40 local time (05: 40 Tuesday GMT) due in part to a technical glitch, local media reported.
The vessel monitoring site Vesselfinder shows the wrecked ship and the traffic jam of other vessels at each end of the canal.
The Trade Monitor TankerTrackers.com tweeted that there were “many fully loaded tankers” trapped at both ends of the canal carrying Saudi, Russian, Omani and American oil.
A mega containership called EVER GIVEN got stuck in the southern end of the Suez Canal and has now blocked off a lot of fully-laden tankers from traversing in either direction. Tankers carrying Saudi, Russian, Omani and US oil are waiting on both ends. # OOTT @ MarineTraffic pic.twitter.com/sGu2ztN9O5
– TankerTrackers.com, Inc.⚓️🛢 (@TankerTrackers)
March 23, 2021
The Suez Canal crosses the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt. It has approximately 193 km (120 miles) long and incorporates three natural lakes. It is one of the most important waterways in the world and links the Mediterranean with the Red Sea and the sea routes to Asia. It has 120 miles long (193 km), 24 meters (79 feet) deep and 205 m (673 feet) wide.
