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A fresh effort is under way to refloat a giant container ship blocking Egypt\u2019s Suez Canal.<\/p>

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Canal authorities say 14 tugboats are trying to take advantage of Saturday\u2019s high tide and more will arrive on Sunday if today\u2019s attempt fails.<\/p>\n

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The Ever Given became wedged in the canal \u2013 one of the world\u2019s busiest waterways \u2013 on Tuesday.<\/p>

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More than 300 ships are stuck on either side of the blockage. Some ships have had to reroute around Africa.<\/p>

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By late Friday, dredgers had removed about 20,000 tonnes of sand from around the Ever Given\u2019s bow, which was stuck deep into the canal\u2019s bank.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The chairman of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), Osama Rabie, told a news conference on Saturday that 9,000 tonnes of ballast water had been removed from the ship.<\/p>

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He said that the stern had begun to move on Friday night and that the rudder and propeller had started working again. Strong tides and winds had made freeing the ship more difficult, he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Rabie could not say how soon the ship might be refloated but said the authority would \u201cwork around the clock\u201d to get other ships through once the Ever Given was moved.<\/p>\n

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The SCA has brought in Netherlands-based Smit Salvage to help the effort. Peter Berdowski, chief executive of Smit\u2019s parent company Boskalis, said on Friday that the bow was \u201creally stuck in the sandy clay, but the stern has not been pushed totally into the clay, which is positive\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe can try to use that as leverage to pull it loose,\u201d he told Dutch TV programme Nieuwsuur.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe hope that a combination of the tugboats, dredging of sand at the bow and a high tide will enable us to get the ship loose.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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