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Suez Canal: Chaos as 100 vessels pile up after being blocked by large cargo ship turning sideways
A large shipping container has blocked Egypt's Suez Canal, causing a huge backlog of cargo ships, vessel tracking websites show.
The 220,000-tonne, 400 metre-long Ever Given – a so-called "mega ship" – became stuck on the crucial East-West waterway for global shipping on Tuesday.
Traffic on the narrow waterway dividing continental Africa from the Sinai Peninsula stopped on Tuesday after the MV Ever Given, a Panama-flagged container ship with an owner listed in Japan, got stuck.
The Ever Given’s bow was touching the canal’s eastern wall, while its stern looked lodged against its western wall, according to satellite data from MarineTraffic.com.
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