This was taking place alongside efforts to source high-capacity pumps to remove water from the front of the vessel, including its bow thruster room at the very bottom tip. “The focus is now on dredging to remove sand and mud from around the port side of the vessel’s bow,” they added. The technical management company of Ever Given, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, said in a statement on Friday that a specialised suction-dredger designed to shift 2,000 cubic metres of sand every hour had arrived on site the day before. The Ever Given ship, stuck sideways in the Suez Canal. The refloating process, he explained, will likely involve a manoeuvre called a “backwards twist,” using large tugboats to rotate the ship counterclockwise and dislodge it from the bank after dredging sand from around the bow. “These are the experts, but it took them three days to get into country, now they have to find these large tugboats and get them to the canal, they’re not positioned there,” said Captain John Konrad, a maritime expert and the founder of maritime news-site gCaptain.
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The experts brought in to free the vessel, the Dutch company SMIT Salvage and Japanese specialists Nippon Salvage, have been working to dislodge tens of thousands of cubic metres of earth around the stricken vessel, as tugboats help to pull it free. A key hurdle has been the sheer size and weight of the enormous vessel, part of a class of container ships that has ballooned in size over the past two decades, partly due to the proliferation of “just in time” logistical models that keep companies lean, efficient and reliant on fast deliveries from factories and warehouses overseas.
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