Suez Canal stays blocked despite efforts to dislodge massive container ship

The incident has left dozens of vessels gridlocked as they attempted to transit between the Red Sea and Mediterranean

Efforts to dislodge a giant container ship from the Suez Canal continued as rescue teams tried to get traffic moving again in the one of the world’s most important waterways. The Ever Given, a container ship longer than the Eiffel Tower that ran aground in the southern part of the canal in Egypt, is still stuck in position, said Ahmed Mekawy, the deputy manager for the Suez Canal for GAC, a provider of port-agent services.
 
Traffic should resume today or tomorrow, Mekawy said earlier on Wednesday. He later said he’d received some wrong information about whether the ship had