Peter Berdowski, CEO of Boskalis, the salvage firm hired to extract the Ever Given, said the company hoped to pull the container ship free within days using a combination of heavy tugboats, dredging and high tides. The massive vessel got stuck in a single-lane stretch of the canal, about six kilometers north of the southern entrance, near the city of Suez. The Ever Given, a Panama-flagged ship that carries cargo between Asia and Europe, ran aground Tuesday in the narrow canal that runs between Africa and the Sinai Peninsula. "Today, the Egyptians have succeeded in ending the crisis of the delinquent ship in the Suez Canal despite the tremendous technical complexity that surrounded this process from every side," he tweeted.A giant container ship remained stuck sideways in Egypt’s Suez Canal for a fifth day Saturday, as authorities prepared to make new attempts to free the vessel and reopen a crucial east-west waterway for global shipping. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi lauded the effort on social media. Videos showed tugboats blaring their horns in celebration. "This was the result of successful push and tow maneuvers, which led to the restoration of 80% of the vessel’s direction," the Egyptian-owned Suez Canal Authority said in a statement. The stern of the Ever Given, which had been grounded about 4 yards from the bank, finally was swung more than 100 yards from shore earlier Monday. Workers dredged 30,000 cubic meters of sand – enough to fill about a dozen Olympic-size swimming pools – while more than a dozen tugboats labored for days to free the ship. The ship, almost as long as the Empire State Building is tall, spun around and ran aground in high winds last Tuesday. The Panamanian-flagged cargo ship weighs 220,000 tons, is nearly a quarter-mile long and carries 20,000 containers. How the ship get stuck in the Suez Canal: The world's heaviest traffic jam
consumers will likely see little effect on prices of U.S. "Since most of the imports blocked over the last week are heading to Europe, U.S.
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