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and the longer this ship is stuck here, the more disruption there will be to global trade. a vast trafficjam continues to build, with more than 300 ships stuck on either side of the vessel, which is holding up £7 billion worth of goods each day. strong wind had been given as the reason for the grounding of the ever given, but today officials suggested other factors could have been to blame. translation: there could be a lot of mistakes but we can tl say what they are now. the only mistake we can be sure of now is the wind and the sandstorm. this is not the main one, like i said, but the rest will become clearer in the investigation. tonight, the ship s manager said initial investigations suggested strong winds led to its grounding. more tug boats will arrive on sunday to help, with all efforts focused on freeing up
back to normal. there were fresh efforts yesterday to re float a giant container ship blocking the suez canal one of the world s busiest waterways. more than 300 ships are stuck on either side of the vessel, which became stranded on tuesday. our correspondent sally nabil reports. the operation to refloat the giant container ship blocking one of the world s busiest waterways, continues into the night in egypt s red sea. tug boats and dredgers have been operating here around the clock to try and dislodge this giant ship that has been blocking the suez canal for the past few days. we understand that huge amounts of sand have been removed to make room for the ship to move. congestion continues to pile up in this strategic waterway, and the longer this ship is stuck here, the more disruption there will be to global trade. a vast trafficjam continues to build, with more than 300 ships
to the operation trying to free the ship. the operation to refloat the giant container ship blocking one of the world s busiest waterways, continues into the night in egypt s red sea. tug boats and dredgers have been operating here around the clock to try and dislodge this giant ship that has been blocking the suez canal for the past few days. we understand that huge amounts of sand have been removed to make room for the ship to move. congestion continues to pile up in this strategic waterway, and the longer this ship is stuck here, the more disruption there will be to global trade. a vast trafficjam continues to build, with more than 300 ships stuck on either side of the vessel, which is holding up £7 billion worth of goods each day. strong wind had been given
he highligted the implications that the blockage will have on the global shipping industry. the analysis as seen on this isn t quite as gloomy as perhaps some are saying that the minute it s cleared is going to take somewhere in the region of six or seven days to get the backlog out of the immediate canal area. but that s only the start of the problem, of course. the issue is one of timing as well post, you know, in the sort of pandemic recovery phase, the shipping business was starting to pick up so the suez canal was at was at maximum capacity. suddenly you ve switched off all those arrivals at ports around the world and when this is cleared, they ll all arrive at sort of the same time, so it s not the end of the problem when the ships are cleared from the canal.