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Ships Exit Suez Canal to Red Sea After Ever Given Cargo Vessel Freed
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March 29, 2021
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1:28Now PlayingPassage through the Suez Canal resumed on Monday evening after salvage teams freed a colossal container ship stuck in the waterway for nearly a week.
Navigation restarted at 6 pm local time (1600 GMT) said the head of the Suez Canal Authority, Lt. Gen. Osama Rabei.
From the city of Suez, ships stacked with containers could be seen exiting the canal into the Red Sea.
At least 113 of over 420 vessels that had waited for Ever Given container ship to be freed were expected to cross the canal by Tuesday morning, Rabei added at a news conference.
It marked the ending of a crisis that had clogged one of the world's most vital waterways and halted billions of dollars a day in maritime commerce.
Helped by the tides, a flotilla of tugboats wrenched the bulbous bow of the skyscraper-sized Ever Given from the canal's sandy bank, where it had been firmly lodged since March 23.
The tugs blared their horns in jubilation as they guided the Ever Given through the water after days of futility that had captivated the world, drawing scrutiny and social media ridicule.
The Ever Given sailed to the Great Bitter Lake, a wide stretch of water halfway between the north and south ends of the canal, for inspection, said Evergreen Marine Corp., a Taiwan-based shipping company that operates the ship.
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