The option they are evaluating for beaching the ship …

New tugs arrive to witness Ever Given, the ship stuck in the Suez Canal, and assess the lightening of their ship’s cargo to facilitate the rescue task. The container ship has blocked the passage of other vessels for five days, and tugs and dredges are working to resolve the issue.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al Sisi “ordered preparations to lighten the ship’s cargo,” the head of the Authority for this route, Admiral Osama Rabie, announced on Egyptian television Extra News.

As reported by the Ansa agency, there are approximately 18,300 containers at Ever Given. It is presumed that by reducing the weight of the ship, it will be possible to bring water to the propellers and then it will be able to move on its own, helped by a rising tide.

This Sunday, new tugs arrived to participate in the work of liberation of the container ship: the Charlemagne, coming from Italy, and the Alp from Holland.

Tugs, explained Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, who manages Ever Given, push the vessel while the dredges continue to suck up the sand and mud deposited under the vessel.

To these maneuvers a little optimism is added for the rising tide scheduled for the next few hours and it could help rescue efforts.

The ship was surrounded by tugs, according to the AFP agency, which realized that the area is closely watched by canal security but also by the military and the police. Meanwhile, around 300 ships are waiting for the conflict to be resolved before they can cross the canal, through which 10% of international trade passes.

En una entrevista telefónica con una cadena de televisión egipcia el sábado por la noche, el almirante Osama Rabie, president of the Autoridad Egipcia del Canal de Suez (SCA), dijo que el barco se había “movido 30 grados a la derecha ya la izquierda ” for the first time. “It’s a good indicator,” he said.