The United States Navy is ready to do everything it can to make this ship float.
The Navy could be called to release the container ship ashore that has blocked the Suez Canal and disrupted world trade since Tuesday.
“A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Navy was willing to send a team of dredging experts to the canal, but was waiting for approval from local authorities,” Reuters reported. this morning.
The cargo ship Ever Give, registered in Panama and under German direction, weighs about 224,000 tons and is 1,300 feet long, approximately at the height of the Empire State Building.
It was stranded by strong winds. Several efforts to free the ship have failed since then, although the ship first sailed on Saturday morning, according to Egyptian authorities.
“Today we have managed to create a space with a depth of 18 meters and we believe we will be able to get the ship up and running again today,” Suez Canal Authority President Osama Rabie told a news conference today.
About 12 percent of world trade passes through Suez, according to the Jerusalem Post.
The Ever Give was involved in a collision with a ferry in Hamburg (Germany) in 2019, an accident also attributed to the wind.