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While the world marveled at the skyscraper-size vessel, it was local workers and tugboat captains who toiled through sleepless nights to free the ship

Inside the Ever Given's Suez Canal rescue: How tides, tugboats helped free the big ship

By News on the Net -- NBC NEWS——--April 3, 2021

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Eslam Negm is no stranger to disarray on the Suez Canal. As a sailor on rescue tugboat Baraka 1, the Egyptian regularly confronts fires, evacuations and loading problems on the 50 or so cargo ships that transit the canal daily. But when Negm got a call from his manager last week to help refloat a stranded container vessel, he said pictures did not prepare him for the days of havoc ahead.-- More...

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