Satellite images taken on March 23, 2021 show the freight container ship Ever Given blocking the Suez Canal in Egypt.
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Satellite images provide a different perspective on the evolving situation in Egypt’s Suez Canal, where a mega container ship turned sideways and got stuck, blocking the busy passage.
Images taken Tuesday from a Planet Labs’ Dove satellite showed the stranded ship, dubbed the Ever Given, in the channel.
The ever given is about 400 feet long (or nearly a quarter of a mile) and 193 feet wide. The ship weighs approximately 220,000 tons and can transport as many as 20,000 containers.
Cropped satellite images taken on March 23, 2021 show the freight container ship Ever Given blocking Egypt’s Suez Canal.
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Suez port agent GAC told Reuters that Ever Given had been partially refloated as of Wednesday morning and moved against the bank of the canal.
“The vessel remains aground at this point, but efforts to re-float it are continuing in close cooperation with the Suez Canal Authority,” a spokesman for Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement told CNBC at around 11:45 am ET. The company is Ever Given’s technical manager.
The Taiwan-based operator of the ship, Evergreen Marine Corp., said in a statement that the Ever Green ran aground after being overcome by high winds as it entered the Suez Canal from the Red Sea. The operator noted that none of his containers had sunk.
CNBC’s Pippa Stevens, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.