A8 The BulleTin • Sunday, March 28, 2021
SUEZ CANAL
No timeline given for extracting wedged ship
This satellite image from Satur-
day shows the cargo ship MV Ever
Given, which is stuck in the Suez
Canal near Suez, Egypt.
BY SAMY MAGDY
Associated Press
SUEZ, Egypt — A giant
container ship remained stuck
sideways in Egypt’s Suez Canal
for a fifth day Saturday, as au-
thorities made new attempts
to free the vessel and reopen a
crucial waterway whose block-
age is disrupting global ship-
ping and trade.
Meanwhile, the head of
the Suez Canal Authority
said strong winds were “not
the only cause” for the Ever
Given running aground on
Tuesday, appearing to push
back against conflicting as-
sessments offered by others.
Lt. Gen. Osama Rabei told a
news conference Saturday that
an investigation was ongoing
but did not rule out human or
technical error.
The massive Ever Given, a
Panama-flagged ship that car-
ries cargo between Asia and
Europe, got stuck in a sin-
gle-lane stretch of the canal,
about 3.7 miles north of the
southern entrance, near the
city of Suez.
Rabei said he could not pre-
dict when the ship might be
dislodged. A Dutch salvage
firm is attempting to refloat
the vessel with tugboats and
dredgers, taking advantage of
high tides.
Rabei said he remained
hopeful that dredging could
free the ship without having to
resort to removing its cargo,
but added that “we are in a dif-
ficult situation, it’s a bad inci-
dent.”
Asked about when they ex-
pected to free the vessel and re-
open the canal, he said: “I can’t
say because I do not know.”
Shoei Kisen, the company
that owns the vessel, said it
was considering removing
containers if other refloating
Maxar Technologies
efforts failed.
Bernhard Schulte Ship-
management, the Ever Given’s
technical manager, said “sig-
nificant progress” was made
late Friday at the ship’s stern
where its rudder was released
from sediment, with another
attempt to free the vessel to be
made around midnight Sat-
urday.
It said around a dozen tug-
boats were working Saturday
alongside dredging operations
that were removing sand and
mud from around the left side
of the vessel’s bow.
Some 9,000 tons of ballast
water had been already re-
moved from the vessel, the ca-
nal chairman said.
Since the blockage began,
a maritime traffic jam had
grown to more than 320 ves-
sels waiting on both ends of the
Suez Canal and in the Great
Bitter Lake in the middle of the
waterway.
Peter Berdowski, CEO of
Boskalis, the salvage firm
hired to extract the Ever
Given, said the company
hoped to pull the container
ship free within days using
a combination of heavy tug-
boats, dredging and high
tides.
He told the Dutch current
affairs show Nieuwsuur on Fri-
day night that the front of the
ship is stuck in sandy clay, but
the rear “has not been com-
pletely pushed into the clay and
that is positive because you can
use the rear end to pull it free.”
Berdowski said two large
tugboats were on their way
to the canal and are expected
to arrive over the weekend.
He said the company aims to
harness the power of the tugs,
dredging and tides, which he
said are expected to be up to 20
inches higher Saturday.
“The combination of the
(tug) boats we will have there,
more ground dredged away
and the high tide, we hope
that will be enough to get the
ship free somewhere early next
week,” he said.
If that doesn’t work, the
company will remove hun-
dreds of containers from the
front of the ship to lighten it,
effectively lifting the ship to
make it easier to pull free, Ber-
dowski said.
A crane was already on its
way that can lift the containers
Cruises will remain banned as
industry pressure to restart heats up
BY TAYLOR DOLVEN
Miami Herald
MIAMI — Despite increas-
ing pressure from the cruise
industry and its allies in gov-
ernment, the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Preven-
tion plans to prevent cruises
from U.S. ports for the foresee-
able future.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis,
Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella
Levine Cava and the cruise in-
dustry lobbying group CLIA
are pressuring the CDC to al-
low U.S. cruises as soon as July
1. But the agency is not budging
on its “conditional sail order,”
which gives cruise companies
a long list of requirements they
must meet before being allowed
to restart.
The government officials
say the conditional sail order,
first issued by the CDC in Oc-
tober and in place until No-
vember 2021, is outdated and
unnecessary now that several
COVID-19 vaccines are avail-
able.
“I urge the CDC to immedi-
ately rescind this baseless no-sail
order to allow Floridians in this
industry to get back to work,”
said DeSantis at a press confer-
ence at Port Canaveral on Friday.
He joins Levine Cava, who
sent a letter to CDC Director
Rochelle Walensky last week,
saying she would welcome guid-
ance from the CDC allowing
cruises by July for only vac-
cinated passengers and crew.
Around 60,000 South Floridians
work directly or indirectly for
the cruise industry.
Earlier this month, CDC
spokesperson Caitlin Shockey
said a majority, but not all, of
the six cruise companies with
ships in U.S. waters had com-
plied with the first phase of the
order: Test all crew members for
COVID-19 weekly and report
results to the agency.
In response to Cruise Lines
International Association’s
public demands Thursday that
the conditional sail order be
lifted, Shockey said the order re-
mains in effect.
“On October 30, 2020, CDC
issued Framework for Con-
ditional Sailing Order (CSO)
that remains in effect until No-
vember 1, 2021,” she said in an
The CDC first banned cruises in U.S. waters in March 2020
amid COVID-19 outbreaks on multiple ships. After
extensive lobbying from the industry, it lifted its no-sail
order on Oct. 30, replacing it with the conditional sail order.
email. “Returning to passenger
cruising is a phased approach
to mitigate the risk of spreading
COVID-19. Details for the next
phase of the CSO are currently
under interagency review.”
The CDC first banned cruises
in U.S. waters in March 2020
amid COVID-19 outbreaks on
multiple ships. After extensive
lobbying from the industry, it
lifted its no-sail order on Oct.
30, replacing it with the condi-
tional sail order. In November,
the CDC added instructions for
lab testing, and in December, it
expanded the list of tests cruise
companies can use.
Since then, crew members
have continued to test positive
for the virus at sea. Thirty-three
cruise ships in U.S. waters have
reported crew members testing
positive for COVID-19 or hav-
ing COVID-like illness (clini-
cally compatible without labo-
ratory confirmation) since the
start of the year, according to
CDC documents obtained by
the Herald.
In a statement Thursday,
CLIA, the cruise industry’s lob-
bying group, urged the CDC
to allow cruising by July, not-
ing that cruises have long re-
sumed in other parts of the
world including Singapore,
China and Italy, hosting nearly
400,000 passengers since the
pandemic began with minimal
COVID-19 outbreaks.
“This is a testament to the
industry’s unparalleled exper-
tise, gained over more than
half a century, in coordinating
movements of guests and crew,
efficiently organizing complex
embarkations and excursions,
and designing vessels that are
more technologically advanced
and operationally agile than
any other mode of transporta-
tion,” said Kelly Craighead, the
group’s CEO, in a statement.
Dr. Michael Callahan, direc-
tor of the Clinical Translation,
Vaccine and Immunotherapy
Center at Massachusetts Gen-
eral Hospital, who worked with
Japanese health authorities to
care for and evacuate sick pas-
sengers and crew on the Dia-
mond Princess cruise ship last
February, said in an interview
Friday it is too soon to be re-
suming U.S. cruises.
off the ship, he said.
The salvage mission was
turning its focus to the ship’s
lodged bow, after some prog-
ress was made towards freeing
the ship’s stern, the canal ser-
vice provider Leth Agencies
said Saturday.
Egypt Prime Minister Mus-
tafa Madbouly called the ship’s
predicament “a very extraordi-
nary incident,” in his first pub-
lic comments on the blockage.
The Suez Canal Authority
organized the first media trip
Saturday to the site where the
vessel was stuck. From a dis-
tance, a flotilla of tugboats and
other salvage equipment ap-
peared minuscule compared to
the vessel, mirroring the scale
of mishap and efforts needed
to reopen the canal.
Bernhard Schulte Shipman-
agement said Friday that its
initial investigation showed
the vessel ran aground due to
strong winds and ruled out
mechanical or engine failure.
However, Rabei seemed to be
pushing back against that as-
sessment Saturday, saying that
all possibilities, including hu-
man and technical errors, were
being investigated.
A prolonged closure of the
crucial waterway would cause
delays in the global shipment
chain. Some 19,000 vessels
passed through the canal last
year, according to official fig-
ures. About 10% of world trade
flows through the canal. The
closure could affect oil and gas
shipments to Europe from the
Middle East.
Some vessels began chang-
ing course and dozens of ships
were still en route to the water-
way, according to the data firm
Refinitiv.
It remained unclear how
long the blockage would last.
Even after reopening the canal
that links factories in Asia to
consumers in Europe, the wait-
ing containers are likely to ar-
rive at busy ports, forcing them
to face additional delays before
offloading.
“The world is but a canvas
for our imagination”
- Henry David Thoreau
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