US Navy wants to send experts: “Slight movement” in finding the ship in the Suez Canal – Economy

The discovery of the container ship “Ever Given” in the Suez Canal is progressing in small steps. Shipping and logistics company GAC on Saturday talked about more than a dozen towers and three trenches that are in use to reopen one of the world’s most important waterways for trade.

There is “slight movement”. The cargo ship is still stranded. The Canal Authority announced Friday evening that nine major towers are involved in the work.

The ship was stopped in the canal on Tuesday following the run-off of a 400-meter-long container ship. This has caused long traffic jams. According to officials, about 320 ships are waiting to go at both gates of the canal, with Danish shipping company Mersk talking about “traffic chaos”. Evergreen, a Taiwanese shipping company, sails under the Panamanian flag.

Admiral Osama Robbie, chairman of the Canal Commission, was not given a deadline on Saturday. “We’ll go around the clock to end the crisis.” Many factors played a role in the maneuvers, especially the direction of the wind, the bottom of the rocks and the flow and flow of the waves, Rabbi said. This is a “complex technical process”. The unloading of cargo to expose the ship was also not ruled out.

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Rabbi said the cause could not be ruled out as a technical problem or a human error. The Prime Minister of Egypt Mustafa Madbuli spoke about an extraordinary incident. The United States and other countries aided Egypt. According to CNN, the U.S. Navy wanted to send a team of experts to the channel on Saturday.

Some shipping companies send ships on other routes

The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, providing the shortest shipping lanes between Asia and Europe. By 2020, nearly 19,000 ships passed through the canal, averaging 50 per day.

With so many extensions, the canal has always been attractive to large cargo and container giants. In 2015, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi re-opened the expanded channel in the hope of increasing revenue and international interest. If the discovery of “always given” takes days or even weeks it will be a serious blow to the image of Egypt.

Some countries have already begun shipping the first ships around the Cape of Good Hope. According to the Hamburg shipping company Habuk-Lloyd, this will extend the voyage by a week. At the same time, it is particularly vulnerable to pirate attacks off the coast of West Africa, especially in the Gulf of Guinea. (dpa)