![]() ![]() President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt celebrated the moment on Twitter, writing that “Egyptians have succeeded today in ending the crisis of the stuck ship in the Suez Canal despite the great complexities surrounding this situation in every aspect.”Įarly Monday, the stern of the Ever Given was clearly free from land, but it was some hours before it was certain that the ship’s bulbous bow had been successfully pulled from the mud and muck on the banks of the canal. “We pulled it off!” Peter Berdowski, chief executive of Royal Boskalis Westminster, a Dutch maritime salvage company hired by the vessel’s owner, said in a statement. Horns blared in celebration as images emerged on social media of the ship once again on the move. The ship, the quarter-mile-long Ever Given, was ultimately set free at around 3 p.m., according to shipping officials. ![]() ![]() Salvage teams, working on land and water for six days and nights, were ultimately assisted by forces more powerful than any machine rushed to the scene: the moon and the tides. Within hours, other ships awaiting transit through the 120-mile-long waterway that connects the Mediterranean and Red Seas, waylaid for nearly a week, fired up their engines and began moving again. The mammoth cargo ship blocking the Suez Canal was wrenched from the shoreline and finally set free on Monday, raising hopes that one of the world’s most vital maritime routes would quickly rebound and limit the fallout of a disruption that had paralyzed billions of dollars in global trade. The Ever Given, after it was fully floated on Monday. ![]()
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