In effect, you have the forces of nature pushing hard with you and they pushed harder than the two sea tugs could pull," Berdowski added. "We were helped enormously by the strong falling tide we had this afternoon. Monday's strong tide "helped push the ship at the top while we pulled at the bottom and luckily it shot free," he said. Many scrambled to get a closer look while others mockingly waved goodbye to the departing ship from their fields of cloverīerdowski told Dutch radio station NPO 1 the company had always believed it would be the two powerful tugboats it sent that would free the ship. In the village of Amer, which overlooks the canal, residents cheered as the vessel moved along. "Egyptians have succeeded in ending the crisis," he wrote on Facebook, "despite the massive technical complexity." President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, who for days was silent about the crisis, praised Monday's events. Dozens of others have taken the long, alternate route around the Cape of Good Hope at Africa's southern tip - a 5,000-kilometer (3,100-mile) detour that costs ships hundreds of thousands of dollars in fuel and other costs.Įgypt, which considers the canal a source of national pride and crucial revenue, has lost over $95 million in tolls, according to the data firm Refinitiv. That created a massive traffic jam that held up $9 billion a day in global trade and strained supply chains already burdened by the coronavirus pandemic.Īt least 367 vessels, carrying everything from crude oil to cattle, are backed up as they wait to traverse the canal. Buffeted by a sandstorm, the Ever Given had crashed into a bank of a single-lane stretch of the canal, about 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) north of the southern entrance, near the city of Suez.
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