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Reuters: Diggers and dredgers struggle to free ship blocking Suez Canal

Published March 29, 2021. Updated March 29 at 6:01 am

A farmer in the northeastern Egyptian city of Ismailiya, harvests grass for cattle in front of the Taiwan-owned MV 'Ever Given' (Evergreen) container ship, a 400-metre- (1,300-foot-)long and 59-metre wide vessel, lodged sideways and impeding all traffic across the waterway of Egypt's Suez Canal, on March 27, 2021.

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Suez Canal salvage teams intensified excavation and dredging on Sunday around a massive container ship blocking the busy waterway ahead of attempts to refloat it, with two sources saying work had been complicated by rock under the ship’s bow.