an attempt to refloat the container ship failed

Still missed. An attempt to refloat the 400-meter-long container ship stuck for four days across the Suez Canal failed on Friday (March 26), said Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM), a Singapore-based company that provides technical management of the ship. .

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An operation aimed “refloat the ship” March 26 “did not succeed”, specifies BSM in a press release, adding that “two additional tugs of 220 to 240 tonnes” will arrive by Sunday to help refloat the ship.

The incident on Tuesday and caused by strong winds combined with a sandstorm, according to various sources, resulted in massive traffic jams on this waterway through which passes 10% of world maritime trade. According to the specialist journal Lloyd’s List, more than 200 ships are stranded at both ends and in the waiting area in the middle of the canal, causing significant delays in deliveries of oil and other products, with a brief impact on black gold prices Wednesday.