Suez Canal Clogged By Giant Ship | HuffPost Latest News

The Suez Canal, one of the worlds busiest and most important waterways , has been gridlocked since Tuesday morning local time after a giant container ship ran aground in the canal.

Photos shared on social media showed Ever Given, a quarter-mile-long vessel carrying hundreds of containers from China to Rotterdam, stuck lengthways across the waterway. Attempts to refloat the enormous ship have failed.

Update: still stuck.

How big is this #SuezCanal plug? Ultra big.

MV #EVERGIVEN
Size: 400m long / 59m wide
Gross tonnage: 219,079
Capacity: 20,388 TEUs (20ft container equivalents).

One of the largest container ships in operation. pic.twitter.com/rJunpJrAKE

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Update: still stuck.

How big is this #SuezCanal plug? Ultra big.

MV #EVERGIVEN
Size: 400m long / 59m wide
Gross tonnage: 219,079
Capacity: 20,388 TEUs (20ft container equivalents).

One of the largest container ships in operation. pic.twitter.com/rJunpJrAKE
John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) March 23, 2021

The stuck ship which is as long as New Yorks Empire State Building is tall has led to a pileup of at least 100 vessels awaiting passage through the Egyptian canal, which connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean, Bloomberg reported .

Julianne Cona, who, according to The Guardian , was aboard another ship in the canal when the incident occurred, posted a photo of the grounded Ever Given on Instagram and lamented in a caption that we might be here for a little bit.

As of early Wednesday Cairo time, the waterway remained blocked by the huge vessel.