After five days of blocking the Suez Canal, the ship makes a slight move

But now, after five days, the ship has finally made a slight move towards unblocking after authorities admitted that a human error “could be guilty of blocking the channel, writes Express.co.uk.

Egypt's Suez Canal Authority chief Osama Rabbi confirmed efforts to free the container ship had enabled the movement of the back of the ship as well as its steering wheel, but he said he could not predict when the ship Ever Given could move again.

Rabbi said he hoped it would not be necessary to call for the removal of hundreds of cargo containers 200 thousand tons found on the ship.