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Ever Given now 80% facing ‘right direction’

Suez Canal Authority says the ship’s stern has moved 102m from the shore

Updated 5 years ago · Published on 29 Mar 2021 2:00PM

Ever Given now 80% facing ‘right direction’
A handout of the Ever Given container ship as it began to move following efforts by Egyptian authorities to reorient the ship. – AFP pic, March 29, 2021

CAIRO – Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority said today that the Ever Given container ship, which has been blocking the crucial waterway for nearly a week, has been turned in the “right direction”.

“The position of the ship has been reorientated 80% in the right direction. The stern...moved to 102m from the shore,” compared to its position four metres from the shore previously, Suez Canal Authority chief Osama Rabie in a statement. – AFP, March 29, 2021

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