(ANSA) - CAIRO, MARCH 27 - The Suez Canal Authority has announced the end of the dredging operations and the start of the towing maneuvers of the Ever Given container ship which on Tuesday blocks the important maritime connection between Asia and Europe, but warned that it is a complex procedure that involves several attempts, which could also fail.
"The head of authority", Admiral Osama Rabie, "announced the start of the towing maneuvers of the stranded ship through nine gigantic tugs at the head of which are the 'Baraka 1' and 'Ezzat Adel'", reports a post last night on the Authority's Facebook page.
This, it is added, "after the end of dredging operations around the bow of the ship carried out by the dredger 'Mashour'".
"Admiral Rabie explained that towing maneuvers require the availability of various auxiliary factors, the most important of which are the wind direction, the high sea and the low": "a complex technical process that has its own estimates, procedures and multiple attempts ", adds the text again.
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