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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 today and dredging vessels have been deployed to help the refloating attempts.

A statement late last night from the vessel’s manager, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM), said: “Dredgers are working to clear sand and mud from around ...