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Suez Canal blocked after massive container ship Ever Given gets stuck sideways
A 400-metre-long container ship is holding up traffic in the Suez Canal after becoming wedged sideways as it passed through the major shipping route.
The Ever Given attempted to pass through the canal while en route to Rotterdam, Netherlands but ran aground at about 6:00am Tuesday, local time, according to a report from maritime website Fleet Mon.
“As of 1440 UTC March 23, the giant ship was still aground with tugs attempting to refloat her,” the website reported.
‘That ship is super stuck’
An image posted to Instagram by Julianne Cona from a nearby ship shows the Ever Given almost completely sideways in the narrow canal.
“From the looks of it that ship is super stuck,” she said in a comment.
“They had a bunch of tugs trying to…
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