Rescuers have warned that the Suez Canal could remain blocked by a grounded giant container ship for “weeks”, raising fears of significant disruption to global trade.
As dredgers arrived on Thursday to help dig out and refloat the 220,000-tonne Ever Given after it became wedged across the canal during a sandstorm on Tuesday, Boskalis, a salvage company involved in the rescue, likened the operation to trying to free a beached whale.
“The more secure the ship is, the longer an operation will take,” Peter Berdowski, chief executive of Boskalis, told the Netherlands’ Nieuwsuur television programme. “It can take days to weeks. Bringing in all the equipment we need, that’s not around the corner.”
Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, the technical manager of the Ever Given, said Boskalis subsidiary Smit Salvage, had been appointed to help the rescue effort, but that an attempt to refloat the vessel in the morning had been unsuccessful. In addition to two dredgers already at the site, a specialised suction dredger has also now arrived, the company said, with a second attempt planned later on Thursday.
Κυριάκος ο Χρυσογέννητος, του Οίκου των Μητσοτακιδών, Πρώτος του Ονόματός του, Κύριος των Κρητών και των Πρώτων Ελλήνων, Προστάτης της Ελλάδος, Μπαμπάς της Δρακογενιάς, ο Κούλης του Οίνοπα Πόντου, ο Ατσαλάκωτος, ο Απελευθερωτής από τα Δεσμά των Μνημονίων.
f για τον πλοίαρχο και τον helmsman του Ever Given
f για όσους είχανε σορτάρει πετρέλαιο
Κυριάκος ο Χρυσογέννητος, του Οίκου των Μητσοτακιδών, Πρώτος του Ονόματός του, Κύριος των Κρητών και των Πρώτων Ελλήνων, Προστάτης της Ελλάδος, Μπαμπάς της Δρακογενιάς, ο Κούλης του Οίνοπα Πόντου, ο Ατσαλάκωτος, ο Απελευθερωτής από τα Δεσμά των Μνημονίων.
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@gov.gr : «You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war.»
There are decades where you fuck around and days where you find out
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