If all goes well, the Ever Given, the large container ship stuck in the Suez Canal, can be released after the weekend. This is what Peter Berdowski of dredging company and maritime service provider Boskalis said on Friday evening in the Dutch television program Nieuwsuur. Boskalis is on site with its subsidiary Smit Salvage to assist with the detachment of the 400-meter-long vessel.
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“Then it should go well”, Berdowski acknowledges. But his company is committed to that. According to the CEO, there are two large tugs on their way to Egypt. They will help pull the ship loose. Now his on-site company is already working on dredging to remove soil from around the front of the ship. Next week it will be high tide for a number of days, which is good because the water will be slightly higher then. Then the ship must be pulled free.
Berdowski hopes the plan will work, but otherwise there is also an alternative. That is also being worked on. A crane is being set up on land that can retrieve containers from the front of the ship. Then that part of the ship would lighten and lift a little more, making it easier to get it free. If necessary, up to six hundred containers could be removed.
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