Enlarge this imageTraffic through the Suez Canal has returned to normal, the canal authority says. Here, the Huahine is seen cro sing the canal on March 30 in Ismailia, Egypt.Mahmoud Khaled/Getty Imageshide captiontoggle captionMahmoud Khaled/Getty ImagesTraffic through the Suez Canal has returned to normal, the canal authority says. Here, the Huahine is seen cro sing the canal on March 30 in Nomar Mazara Jersey Ismailia, Egypt.Mahmoud Khaled/Getty ImagesFive days after a skyscraper-sized container ve sel was dislodged from the Suez Canal, the backlog of ships waiting to cro s through the Egyptian waterway has been cleared, the canal authority says. When the 1,312-foot Ever Given ship ran aground March 23, it blocked canal traffic, grinding maritime shipping to a halt at one of the world’s busiest waterways. During the six days the Ever Given remained stuck, more than 400 ships were stranded at the man-made canal, which connects the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. But after a flotilla of tugboats finally freed the ve sel on Monday, traffic resumed. Late Friday, the chairman of the Suez Canal Authority told an Egyptian television station the remaining 61 Mike Minor Jersey ships would pa s through the canal on Saturday.World Cargo Overboard, Intense Rolling: The Risks Of Fully Loaded Mega-Container Rafael Montero Jersey ShipsBusine s Ship Happens: Coffee, Livestock, Ikea Furniture Among The Objects Stuck At The Suez Chairman Osama Rabie told MBC Masr that in total, 85 ships were expected to pa s through the canal in both directions Saturday, according to Reuters. The canal authority began an investigation Wednesday into what exactly caused the Ever Given to run aground and block the waterway. That investigation should be complete within two days, he said. Experts say bigger ships have been constructed over the past several decades as demand for consumer products has grown. The Empire State Building-sized Ever Given isn’t an anomaly; more than 100 similarly ma sive ships are traveling the world’s waterways with even bigger ones under construction. Marine-risk analysts have long warned about the concerns of ever-larger ships, Capt. Andrew Kinsey, a senior marine-risk consultant for Allianz, told NPR this week. “We’ve been trying to raise the i Nolan Ryan Jersey sue for a very long time,” he said, calling the Ever Given incident “a warning” of things to come.
