RELATED: Suez Canal Debacle: Cargo ship is free but effects on trade will lingerOfficials have not said what caused the vessel to run aground.The ship was built in 2012 with a length of nearly 225 meters (738 feet) and a width of over 32 meters (104 feet).
It was en route to Port Sudan on the Red Sea, according to Traffic Marine, a vessel tracking firm.Sunrise beyond commercial shipping at the entrance to the Suez Canal in Suez, Egypt on Monday, March 29, 2021.
The Ever Given has been re-floated in an operation early Monday and maneuvers are scheduled to resume again at about 11:30 a.m.
local time, Thursday’s incident came less than six months after the massive Panama-flagged Ever Given ran aground in the single-lane stretch of the canal..