The pilots and crew onboard the massive container ship that blocked the Suez Canal could face arrest and be ‘made scapegoats’ for the incident as investigators continue to search for the cause of the grounding that strangled global trade. Union officials fear the 25-man Indian crew onboard the 220,000-ton Ever Given, which found itself wedged across … Read more
The first of hundreds of trapped ships snaked their way through a newly unblocked Suez Canal on Monday as the saga over the waterway seems to be coming to an end. The bow of the 220,000-ton Ever Given container ship was finally dislodged from the channel’s bank on Monday and towed up the waterway after tugboats … Read more
A procession to move 22 royal mummies from one museum in Egypt to another has coincided with a number of strange incidents last week that some are blaming on Pharaoh’s curse. Officials are planning on transport the mummies from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat on … Read more
Climate change has been influencing human development for thousands of years, according to scientists examining why a well-fortified port city in Egypt was suddenly abandoned more than 2,100 years ago. Berenike, also known as Berenike Troglodytica, was a fortified city founded in 275 BC by Macedonian pharaoh Ptolemy II, who named it after his mother, … Read more
The massive container ship blocking the busy Suez Canal has been freed from the bank of the vital trade route in a last-ditch bid to take advantage of the king tide brought on by the supermoon. The Ever Given was freed by salvage teams early on Monday, one week after after the 1,300-foot-long ship ran … Read more
Salvage teams have intensified excavation and dredging efforts around a massive container ship blocking the busy Suez Canal after canal chiefs launched a last-ditch bid to take advantage of the king tide brought on by the supermoon to help free the vessel. Officials said operations were under way to make use the high tides created by … Read more
Two heavier tugboats sped to Egypt‘s Suez Canal on Sunday to join efforts to free a skyscraper-sized container ship wedged for days across the crucial waterway. The massive Ever Given, a Panama-flagged, Japanese-owned ship that carries cargo between Asia and Europe, got stuck on Tuesday in a single-lane stretch of the canal. Authorities have so … Read more
Maritime tracking technology has simulated the moment the Ever Given cargo carrier lurched into the banks of the Suez Canal when it ran aground five days ago. Two attempts to dislodge the 1,300ft-long container ship – and reopen the critical global trade route – will be made today after efforts yesterday failed. The Panama-flagged vessel, which … Read more
IKEA’s supply chain could be disrupted due to the ongoing traffic jam in the Suez Canal as there is estimated to be billions worth of supplies from several major companies being blocked by the ongoing crisis. A satellite image taken above the Red Sea shows the hundreds of ships building up behind a cargo ship … Read more
BREAKING: 32 people are killed and more than 60 injured after two trains collide in Egypt Two passenger trains crashed into each other in the province of Sohag, 285 miles south of the capital Cairo 49 ambulances rushed to the scene and a ‘state of emergency’ declared among hospitals Three train carriages came off the … Read more