CAIRO—The huge container ship that blocked the Suez Canal for six days has been freed and is transferring north to an anchor level, paving the way in which to open the vital waterway and start easing international provide delays.
Engineers raced all through Monday to complete the job of dislodging the Ever Given after partially refloating the ship at daybreak, making the most of an unusually excessive tide to make the job simpler.
Tugboats helped pull the vessel out from the facet of the canal the place it had been caught, earlier than straightening its heading. It slowly started to maneuver, with the target of later reaching an anchor level at a lake additional up the canal system. It was as but unclear when the waterway shall be reopened to visitors.
Egyptian tv pictures confirmed tugboats blaring their horns as they towed the Ever Given as Osama Rabie, chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, which runs the waterway, introduced it had been efficiently freed.
Ship visitors inside the canal community started to maneuver Monday afternoon as authorities sought to ease the congestion that had constructed up.
