Egypt has been blocked by a massive container ship, according to media reports.According to a BBC report, the Ever Given, built in 2018, ran aground while attempting to turn just north of the port of Suez.
A report from The Guardian said several attempts to refloat the 220,000-tonne, 400-metre-long ship have failed. Egypt to unveil Suez Canal extension The ship tracking website VesselFinder said the Ever Given is on its way from China to Rotterdam in the Netherlands.The ship is owned by Evergreen, a Taiwanese shipping company.
It sails under the Panama flag.By 10 p.m. ET, the VesselFinder website still showed the Ever Given lodged sideways in the canal, creating a traffic jam for other vessels around it.It was not immediately clear how.