The Suez Canal remains blocked for the fifth day
A giant container ship remained stuck sideways in Egypt's Suez Canal for a fifth day on Saturday, as authorities prepared to make new attempts to free the ship and reopen the important east-west route for global shipping.
The Ever Given, a ship with the Panama flag that transports cargo between Asia and Europe, ran aground on Tuesday in the narrow canal that runs between Africa and the Sinai Peninsula. The massive ship got stuck in a single field stretch of the canal, about 6 kilometers north of the southern entrance,…