Suez Canal: Rescue teams can only move mega-ships 29 meters so far - new details on the cause of the accident

The Suez Canal in Egypt is blocked by the container ship "Ever Given" - a space photo shows the devastating extent.

There are also live animals on board.

• A freighter 400 meters long and weighing more than 220,000 tons ran aground in the Suez Canal

  (see initial report)

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• Space recordings show how the container ship causes a traffic jam on the important trade route

  (update from March 27, 9:05 a.m.)

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• Animal rights activists are now

  sounding the

  alarm - the authorities are already involved

  (update from March 28, 9.42 a.m.)

  .

Update from March 28, 1:53 p.m

.: In the meantime, more than 300 ships are stuck in traffic - and the economic damage is increasing steadily.

An Egyptian admiral is now giving hope.

According to him, workers are preparing for a partial discharge of the "Ever Given".

President Abdel attah al-Sisi had arranged preparations, Usama Rabi told

Extra News

on Sunday.

The mega container ship - about the size of the Empire State Building in New York - has been able to move 29 meters so far.

The service provider Inchcape Shipping Services announced.

And Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM), who are responsible for the technical management of the ship, reported: The rudder could already be freed.

Mega freighter blocks Suez Canal: Admiral speaks of "human error"

According to initial investigations, “strong wind” was the cause of the “Ever Given” running aground, BSM continued.

The freighter has been blocking the Suez Canal for days.

Admiral Usama Rabi did not rule out "human error" either.

The 25 crew members, all from India, are doing well and still on board.

So far there is no information about possible damage to the cargo or pollution of the water.

Mega traffic jam in the Suez Canal: "Situation very threatening" - tens of thousands of animals are stuck on freighters

Update from March 28, 9.42 a.m.:

130,000 sheep could also die in the Suez Canal blockade.

This was announced by the animal welfare organization

Animals International

.

According to their statements, eleven Romanian freighters with this number of live animals on board are stuck.

"The situation is very threatening," said the organization.

The animal rights activists combined the warning with a demand: Romania must immediately stop exporting live animals and instead switch to meat exports.

The veterinary authorities in Bucharest have already contacted the animal transport companies, according to their own statements, and they have assured "that there is enough food and water on board for the coming days".

If necessary, the Romanian freighters have to be rerouted and the animals unloaded in other ports of arrival.

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400 meters long and weighing more than 220,000 tons: the ship "Ever Given" stuck in the Suez Canal

© Mohamed Elshahed / dpa

"Ever Given" is stuck in the Suez Canal: "We work around the clock"

Update from March 27, 2021, 9:35 p.m.:

The container ship Ever Given has still not been exposed, although there has been slight progress.

Admiral Usama Rabi, chairman of the canal authority, did not give a time frame for the exposure on Saturday.

"We are working around the clock to end the crisis."

For this reason, some countries have already started to take the first ships around the Cape of Good Hope.

According to the Hamburg shipping company Hapag-Lloyd, this will extend the journeys by around a week.

One problem with this is that the waters off the coast of West Africa, particularly in the Gulf of Guinea, are particularly dangerous due to possible pirate attacks.

Suez Canal: Space photo shows mega-traffic jam - "Slight movement" when the container ship is uncovered

Update from March 27, 12:37 p.m.: Something

is happening with the Suez Canal blockade in Egypt

(see previous update)

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There is a “slight movement” with the container ship “Ever Given” caught there.

More than ten tugs and three excavators are currently in use, said the shipping and logistics company GAC.

The ship of the Taiwanese shipping company Evergreen sails under the Panamanian flag and ran aground in a sandstorm.

Several factors played a role in the maneuvers for the exposure, it was said - especially the wind direction and ebb and flow.

It is a "complicated technical operation".

The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean with the Red Sea and thus offers the shortest shipping route between Asia and Europe.

Every year around 18,000 ships normally pass through the waterway.

Some countries have already started to send the first ships on a detour around the Cape of Good Hope.

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

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."

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.

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 of around one million euros was caused to the ferry and the pier.

List of rubric lists: © Mohamed Elshahed / dpa