150 vessels sit idle as efforts to free cargo ship stranded in Suez Canal continue

Efforts to free the ship using dredgers, digging and the aid of high tides are yet to push the container vessel aside

A satellite image from Planet Labs Inc. shows the cargo ship MV Ever Given sits wedged in the Suez Canal. Picture: Planet Labs Inc. via AP

A skyscraper-sized cargo ship wedged across Egypt’s Suez Canal continues to block global shipping as at least 150 other vessels sit idle while waiting for the obstruction to be cleared, authorities said.

The Ever Given, a Panama-flagged ship that carries cargo between Asia and Europe, ran aground on Tuesday in the narrow, man-made canal dividing continental Africa from the Sinai Peninsula.