The giant container ship Ever Given is en route once again through the Suez Canal, five months after it ran aground in March shaking global shipping trade flow for almost a week.
According to data provided by MarineTraffic, the ship left the Port of Felixstowe, England, on 5 August and is currently Suez Canal without or with minimum cargo onboard, heading for repairs.
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The grounding of the 400-meter-long ship Ever Given in the southern section of the Suez Canal on March 23 blocked the waterway for nearly a week, causing a major disruption in global trade flows as it prevented hundreds of ships from passing the world’s major shipping trade route, before it was finally freed six days later. The ship had been anchored in a lake between two stretches of the canal until 7 July, when it was released after insurers reached a compensation settlement with the canal authority.
