It is an intercontinental traffic jam.
A huge container ship ran aground on the Suez Canal, preventing other cargo ships from passing through the crucial link between Africa and Asia.
Ever Given – which has more than four football fields and weighs 440 million pounds – was housed on the waterway on Tuesday while attempts at reflotation failed, The Guardian reported.
Photos taken from another boat show the giant container ship stuck in the water, tilted slightly to one side. Attempts by small Egyptian ships to free him were unsuccessful.
The shipment tracking website, Vesselfinder, shows that dozens of ships were anchored on either side of Ever Given Tuesday night, while ships await their turn to move to the Mediterranean or Red Sea.
The ship is going to Rotterdam from China.