New Delhi:
Maxar’s WorldView-3 satellite collected new imagery this morning at 10:51 am regional time of the Ever Given container ship in the Suez Canal. The ship has beached for days, affecting shipping and maritime trade.
These photographs show the present status of the ship and the continuing efforts to excavate sand about the bow of the ship.
Suez Canal salvage teams had been alternating in between dredging and tugging on Sunday to dislodge the huge container ship blocking the busy waterway, even though two sources stated efforts had been difficult by rock below the ship’s bow, news agency Reuters reported.
Dredgers working to dislodge the stranded vessel have so far shifted 27,000 cubic metres of sand, to a depth of 18 metres, and efforts would continue about the clock according to wind situations and tides, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) stated in a statement.
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has ordered preparations for the doable removal of some of the ship’s 18,300 containers, SCA Chairman Osama Rabie told Egypt’s Extra News.
Any operation to lighten the ship’s load would not begin just before Monday, an SCA supply told Reuters, as salvage teams attempt to take benefit of higher tides just before they recede next week to manoeuvre the ship cost-free.
The 400-metre extended Ever Given became jammed diagonally across a southern section of the canal in higher winds more than 5 days ago, halting shipping website traffic in one of the world’s busiest waterways.