Evergreen Marine giant freighter EVER GIVEN has been stranded in the Suez Canal for days, causing global shipping traffic jams, but good news finally came out earlier, the stern of EVER GIVEN has started to move, the rudder and propeller are also back in operation, and the rescue team has also revealed its fastest Time to get out of trouble.
Evergreen Marine giant cargo ship EVER GIVEN has been stranded in the Suez Canal for days, causing global shipping traffic jams, but good news finally came out earlier, the stern of EVER GIVEN has started to move, the rudder and propellers are also back in operation, and the rescue team has also revealed its fastest time to get out of trouble.
Dutch marine rescue company Smit Salvage said that if the tugboat load capacity, dredging works and full tide and other multi-pronged success to move the freighter, early next week the long Chi ship will be able to get out of trouble.
Prior to yesterday, the dredger had removed about 20,000 metric tons of sediment around the bow, but the operation to refloat the Chang Chi was suspended last night. “Our goal is to finish the job after the weekend, but everything has to be perfect,” Peter Berdowski, CEO of Smit Salvage’s parent company Boskalis, told Dutch television news program Nieuwsuur last night. Smit Salvage joined the operation this week to assist the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) in rescuing the Evergreen cargo container.
The stern of the Evergreen began to move. (Photo/ Reprinted from Jakub Jakóbowski, Marcel Dirsus Twitter)
The bow is solidly stuck in the sediment, but the stern is not completely pushed into the sediment, which is good news,” said Berdowski. We can try to use this to move the freighter.” “Several heavy tugs plus a total load capacity of 400 metric tons will arrive at the end of the week. We hope that the combination of the tugs, bow dredging work and full tide will allow us to start moving the freighter next Monday.”
The National Space Center’s Fukui 5 captured footage of the Chang Chi running aground. (Photo/reproduced on the NSPO Facebook page)
The Evergreen freighter ran aground on the waterway, causing major ship congestion in the Suez Canal, nearly doubling tanker freight rates and disrupting the global supply chain. Berdowski said a crane will arrive on the scene this weekend and can be used to unload containers from the Evergreen ship to reduce its weight, but experts warned the process could be both complex and time-consuming.
If we don’t succeed in moving the cargo ship next week, we will have to remove about 600 containers from the bow to reduce the weight,” he said. This will delay our progress by at least several days because it will be a problem to place those containers.” In addition, the sources said that the operation to try to refloat the Chang Chi will resume at around 2:30 p.m. local time today (12:30 p.m. GMT today), taking advantage of the high tide. The source said that if unsuccessful, another attempt will be made tomorrow morning. The source noted that to refloat the Chang Chi, more sediment may have to be removed from around the bow.
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