Container ship clogs Suez Canal: space image shows mega traffic jam - US Army offers help

The Suez Canal in Egypt is blocked by the "Ever Given".

The blockage continues.

A space shot now shows the mega-traffic jam.

Update from March 27, 9:05 a.m

.: A ship causes trouble.

The massive freighter “Ever Given” has been blocking the Suez Canal in Egypt since Tuesday - now even the US Army is offering its help in the misery.

An expert team of Marines could be deployed quickly, said White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki in Washington on Friday.

Talks with the government in Cairo were still ongoing, she continued.

A representative of the US Department of Defense, who did not want to be named, said according to

AFP

that if Egypt makes a formal request, the team could leave the US naval base in Bahrain on Saturday.

However, the representative restricted: "We can certainly advise, but we cannot escort them all."

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The container ship "Ever Given" has been blocking the Suez Canal in Egypt for days.

© Samuel Mohsen / dpa

Efforts on site to get the ship free again have been in full swing since Wednesday

(see initial report)

- German companies are also

worried

about delivery bottlenecks.

Because of the 400 meter long and over 220,000 tons heavy freighter, more than 200 ships were stowed at the site.

The

European Space Research Institute (ESRIN)

tweeted a space footage of the incident:

#Suez canal traffic jam caught from space🛳️🛰️

➡️On the right we can see the enormous #EverGiven container ship (25 March - @CopernicusEU # Sentinel1) and the block on maritime traffic that it caused

⬅️On the left we can see the canal on a 'normal' day (March 21, Sentinel-1) pic.twitter.com/qtznVoB6CL

- ESA EarthObservation (@ESA_EO) March 26, 2021

Container ship clogs Suez Canal: Before the accident, the captain drove a model into the sea - and that is tough

News from March 26, 2021:

Suez - Was that on purpose or just a coincidence?

A video shows the waiting course of the wrecked "Ever Given" before it entered the Suez Canal on Tuesday.

While the other ships barely move, the huge container ship drives around cheerfully.

If you watch the video to the end, the image of a penis comes to light.

Vesselfinder, a company that offers shipping-related services, drew attention to this.

The freighter's management sees nothing wrong with this.

A spokesman for Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement told Der Spiegel: “It is not unusual for ships waiting to enter, meandering around beforehand.” If this is really the case, the captain of the “Ever Given” has inadvertently become an artist.

Suez Canal blockade: Penis course causes malice on Twitter

On Twitter, the unusual course of the container ship is already a topic that causes ridicule.

"If you are dissatisfied with your employer, send him a secret message in order to then stop a large part of the global oil trade," wrote the user orthopedist.

Susette Gontard takes the same line.

She writes: "Who doesn’t know it: turning a small penis round and then getting stuck in the canal."

Suez Canal blockade: ten tugs cannot free the container ship

The "Ever Given" is still stuck.

The Japanese owner hopes that the canal will be navigable again next weekend.

A spokesman for the company Shoei Kisen told the dpa that they wanted to try to get the cargo ship afloat on Saturday.

If this does not work, it is planned to use two more tugs on Sunday.

Ten tugs have been used so far.

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The container ship Ever Given drove a penis course while waiting in front of the Suez Canal

© Screenshot Youtube / Vesselfinder

Suez Canal blockade: ship owners face high costs

The 400-meter-long "Ever Given" has been blocking the Suez Canal, one of the world's most important waterways, since Tuesday.

The container ship sailing under the Panamanian flag ran aground.

Shoei Kisen could now face high costs.

The operator of the ship, the Taiwanese Evergreenline, claims to have only chartered the ship.

Therefore, the owner has to pay for salvage and repair costs as well as other claims by third parties.

Long traffic jams have formed in front of both junctions, Port Said in the north and Suez in the south.

Over 100 ships are waiting to continue their journey.

The oil market has recently seen strong price fluctuations, as the Suez Canal is also of great importance for the international oil trade.

Suez Canal blockade: container ship wrecked in the port of Hamburg

The "Ever Given" has already had an accident.

The freighter caused a collision with a ferry in the port of Hamburg.

The container ship went off course on February 9, 2019 and squeezed the “Finkenwerder” port ferry at the Blankenese jetty.

Property damage to the amount of around one million euros was incurred on the ferry and the pier.

List of rubric lists: © Samuel Mohsen / dpa