The giant cargo ship that has been stuck in Egypt’s Suez Canal since Tuesday is made up of an all-Indian crew, reports said on Thursday. A...
The giant cargo ship that has been stuck in Egypt’s Suez Canal since Tuesday is made up of an all-Indian crew, reports said on Thursday. All 25 crew members are safe and have been accounted for, according to AP.
Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, the company that manages the ship Ever Given, said that two pilots from Egypt’s canal authority were aboard the vessel to guide it when the grounding incident happened around 7.45 am on Tuesday.
The ship was carrying cargo between Asia and Europe through the man-made canal that divides continental Africa from the Sinai Peninsula. Dredgers, tugboats and backhoe were used to free the ship on Thursday but all failed even as the number of vessels unable to pass through the vital waterway rose to 150. The incident has led to global losses too.
Authorities have been unable to push the vessel even with the help of high tides and were looking for new ideas to free it. Satellite photos taken on Thursday by private Earth-imaging company Planet Labs Inc and analysed by news agency AP showed that the vessel was still stuck in the same location.
New @planetlabs satellite imagery from this morning shows the shipping traffic backup in the Gulf of Suez behind the stuck Ever...
