The US Navy is ready to help cargo ships block the Suez Canal

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The US Navy is ready to do everything it can to help this boat float.

The Navy could be called to release the containerized ship on the ground that blocked the Suez Canal and disrupted global trade on Tuesday.

“An American official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Navy is ready to send a team of dredging experts to the canal, but is awaiting approval from local authorities,” he told Reuters this morning.

The cargo ship Ever given, registered in Panama and under German leadership, weighs approximately 224,000 tons and is 1,300 feet long, approximately at the height of the Empire State Building.

It was forced by strong winds. Various efforts to free the ship have failed since then, although the ship moved for the first time on Saturday morning, according to Egyptian authorities.

A crew using excavation equipment is trying to unearth Ever Date, a Panama-flagged cargo ship that is embedded over the Suez Canal and blocks vital waterway traffic.
A crew using excavation equipment is trying to dig up Ever Date, a Panama-flagged cargo ship that is embedded across the Suez Canal and is blocking vital waterway traffic.
Suez Canal Authority through AP

“Today, we have managed to create a space with a depth of 18 meters and we believe that we will be able to put the ship into operation until today,” Sama Canal Authority President Osama Rabie told a news conference today.

About 12 percent of world trade passes through Suez, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Ever Date, one of the largest container ships in the world, can be seen on March 26 after it crashed into the Suez Canal.
Ever Date, one of the largest container ships in the world, can be seen on March 26 after it crashed into the Suez Canal.
SCA through Reuters

The Ever Give was involved in a collision with a ferry in Hamburg, Germany in 2019, an accident attributed to the wind.

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