Egypt's President Orders Preparations Be Made To Unload Ever Given's Cargo If Refloating Efforts Continue To Fail

Business Insider: Egypt's president orders preparations be made to unload Ever Given's cargo if refloating fails, a high risk strategy adding days of delay

* Egypt's President has ordered preparations be made to unload the cargo of the Ever Given ship.

* He outlined the plans to the Suez Canal Authority on Sunday morning, local media reported.

* Unloading the cargo risks unbalancing and damaging the ship, an expert warned.

Egypt's president has ordered preparations be made to unload the cargo of the Ever Given ship if refloating fails, according to local media reports.

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi outlined the plan to the Suez Canal Authority on Sunday morning, Daily News Egypt reported.

Efforts are currently underway to refloat the ship. The floatation efforts included towing and pushing the grounding vessel using 8 large tugboats, the Suez Canal Authority said.

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More News On The Blockage Of The Suez Canal

Egypt’s president orders preparations for unloading the Ever Given blocking the Suez Canal -- Washington Post

Suez Canal: Effort to refloat wedged container ship continues -- BBC

Hope for freeing Ever Given? Rescue teams manage to shift the 220,000-ton container ship by nearly 100 FEET as 12 tugs join bid to save it SIX days after it got stuck in Suez Canal where experts claim it's 'holding up more than £30billion in trade' -- Daily Mail

2 tugboats speed to Egypt’s Suez Canal as shippers avoid it -- AP

Tugs, dredgers still struggle to free ship blocking Suez Canal -- Reuters

Tugboats sent speeding to Suez Canal to aid attempts to free megaship -- France 24

Stranding of Ever Given in Suez canal was foreseen by many -- The Guardian