Two more tugboats join bid to free cargo ship stuck in Suez Canal

A satellite image shows the cargo ship Ever Given stuck in the Suez Canal in Egypt (Maxar Technologies/AP)

Two additional tugboats were speeding to Egypt’s Suez Canal on Sunday to aid efforts to free a huge container ship which has been wedged across the vital waterway for day.

The Ever Given, a Panama-flagged, Japanese-owned ship that carries cargo between Asia and Europe, got stuck in a single-lane stretch of the canal on Tuesday.