The giant container ship that blocked the Suez Canal for almost a week was fully floated on Monday and traffic in the waterway would resume, the canal authority said in a statement.
The ship moving and a shipping tracker and Egyptian TV showed it positioned in the centre of the canal.
“Admiral Osama Rabie, head of the Suez Canal Authority, has announced the resumption of shipping traffic in the Suez Canal,” the SCA said in a statement, shortly after shipping sites had showed it to have once more diagonally blocked the waterway.
According to witnesses, the Ever Given container ship was moving and a shipping tracker and Egyptian TV showed it positioned in the centre of the canal.
Earlier in the day, Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said the Ever Given container ship was partially refloated and turned in the “right direction”.
The news comes a week after the container ship ran aground in high winds, blocking one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes
