The giant container ship Ever Given, which blocked the Suez Canal for six days in March, crossed the waterway on Friday for the first time since it left Egypt after the incident.
In order to avoid an incident like the Suez canal crisis of March, a group of Suez Canal Authority (SCA) senior pilots and two tugboats escorted the Ever Given throughout its journey through the canal. Live ship tracking showed the vessel successfully negotiating the early stages of the canal on its way toward the Red Sea.
Ever Given, en-route to China from the United Kingdom, crossed the waterway from the South along with a convoy of 26 vessels from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, the SCA said in a statement.
The Taiwanese-operated 400-meter (1,312-foot) vessel, one of the world’s largest container ships, became jammed across the canal in high winds on March 23, halting traffic in both directions and disrupting global trade. The operation to free the ship from the canal caused a backlog that delayed the journeys of hundreds of ships, forcing some to take a much longer route around the southern tip of Africa.
Once it was dislodged, the vessel left Egypt on July 7, 106 days after becoming wedged across a southern section of the waterway.
Friday’s voyage through the canal was the Ever Given’s 22nd in the waterway.
In order to avoid an incident like the Suez canal crisis of March, a group of Suez Canal Authority (SCA) senior pilots and two tugboats escorted the Ever Given throughout its journey through the canal. Live ship tracking showed the vessel successfully negotiating the early stages of the canal on its way toward the Red Sea.
Ever Given, en-route to China from the United Kingdom, crossed the waterway from the South along with a convoy of 26 vessels from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, the SCA said in a statement.
The Taiwanese-operated 400-meter (1,312-foot) vessel, one of the world’s largest container ships, became jammed across the canal in high winds on March 23, halting traffic in both directions and disrupting global trade. The operation to free the ship from the canal caused a backlog that delayed the journeys of hundreds of ships, forcing some to take a much longer route around the southern tip of Africa.
Once it was dislodged, the vessel left Egypt on July 7, 106 days after becoming wedged across a southern section of the waterway.
Friday’s voyage through the canal was the Ever Given’s 22nd in the waterway.
