Egypt’s president orders preparations for unloading the Ever Given blocking the Suez Canal
By Sudarsan Raghavan
March 28, 2021 at 6:57 a.m. EDT
ISMAILIA, Egypt — Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi ordered preparations to be made for the unloading of the Ever Given cargo carrier that is blocking the Suez Canal, the head of the canal authority said Sunday.
Lt. Gen. Osama Rabie, chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, told Egyptian television that they were preparing for the "third scenario" of unloading containers from the massive ship so that it can be refloated and open up one of the world's busiest waterways which has been blocked for five days now and left more than 300 ships waiting to pass through.
Unloading some of the 18,000 containers from the towering ship would require special equipment so the president authorized obtaining it even while dredging continued, Rabie said, explaining that 27,000 cubic feet of sand had already been removed from around the vessel to a depth of 18 meters.
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