Posted on 03/25/21
| News Source: i24
Suez Canal Authority announces it was 'temporarily suspending navigation' as blockage causes traffic
The owners of a giant container vessel blocking the Suez Canal said Thursday they were facing "extreme difficulty" refloating it, prompting Egypt to suspend navigation through one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.
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The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said it was trying to refloat the Panama-flagged MV Ever Given, a 1,300-foot-long vessel which veered off course and ran aground in a sandstorm on Tuesday.
Satellite pictures released by Planet Labs Inc show the 59-meter wide container ship wedged diagonally across the entire canal. Read more at i24