#and hasn't moved a jot since the day they unstuck it

[sanguinarysanguinity]

The fate of the now-famous Ever Given cargo vessel continues to be newsworthy. While the 1300-foot-long container ship has been freed from its sideways grounding in the Suez Canal, it remains in the canal. The reason, you ask? Egyptian authorities say they want the ship's owners to pay a king's ransom to compensate for the week that the canal was shut down.

Osama Rabie, chairman of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), said on Egyptian state television this week that the country will hold onto the ship while it investigates what happened and until the ship's owner pay $1 billion...

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On board are 25 Indian crew members, and the National Union of Seafarers of India issued a statement that said the SCA and the boat's owners are allowed to investigate, but that these discussions should not create a piracy-like situation.

"If the SCA has suffered losses, they can sort it out with those involved with the ship but that cannot haul up seafarers in any manner," the National Union of Seafarers of India's general secretary told the Times of India.

That’s where it’s been sitting, ever since March 29th: in the Bitter Lake, halfway along the Suez Canal.

#ever given #suez canal #maritime #I've been watching this ship on vessel tracker for the last couple of weeks #it's been sitting in the bitter lake #(halfway along the canal) #and hasn't moved a jot since the day they unstuck it #at first they said they were investigating it for seaworthiness #but it seems there have been Developments