News / Questions being asked after box ship runs aground blocking Suez Canal

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24/03/2021

UPDATE: Efforts to free the 20,388 teu containership Ever Given, which ran aground in the Suez Canal late Tuesday, resumed this morning after tugs were forced abandon the operation yesterday due to continuing high winds.

However, tugs were unable to free the stricken vessel at high tide ...

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