CAIRO — Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority said Monday the Ever Given container ship, which has been blocking the crucial waterway for nearly a week, has been turned in the “right direction.”
“The position of the ship has been reorientated 80 percent in the right direction,” SCA chief Osama Rabie said in a statement.
“The stern… moved to 102 meters (335 feet) from the shore,” compared to its position four meters from the shore previously, he added.
Rabie noted that the process of refloating the ship had begun, “with success”.
The process “will resume when water flow increases again from 11:30 am (0930 GMT)… in order to completely refloat the vessel, so as to reposition it…
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