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The container ship blocking the Suez Canal was partially refloated this morning but straightening the vessel was \u2018the simplest part of the job\u2019 and the bow is still stuck in the canal bank, salvage workers said today.<\/p>

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Tugboats blared their horns to celebrate their breakthrough early on Monday after the 220,000-ton Ever Given was turned \u201980 per cent in the right direction\u2019, with its stern no longer blocking the entire channel.<\/p>\n

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But the head of a Dutch salvage firm hired to extract the ship \u2013 and clear a massive traffic jam which has brought billions of dollars\u2019 worth of global trade to a standstill \u2013 warned that the toughest challenge was still to come at the front of the ship.<\/p>

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\u2018Don\u2019t cheer too soon,\u2019 Peter Berdowski told Dutch radio on Monday as goods remained stuck in the canal, adding: \u2018The good news is that the stern is free but we saw that as the simplest part of the job\u2019.<\/p>

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It was unclear how long it would take to re-open the canal, six days after the bow of the Ever Given got jammed in the Egyptian shore during high winds \u2013 causing \u00a36.5billion of global trade to be held up every day.<\/p>\n

Tracking websites showed traffic still backed up at either end of the channel, with the world\u2019s largest container firm, Denmark\u2019s Maersk, warning that \u2018it could take six days or more for the complete queue to pass\u2019.<\/p>

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Canal authorities said the ship had been partially refloated after tugboats used a high tide brought on by \u00a0a supermoon to pull the 1,300ft-long vessel while rescue teams vacuumed up sand from the canal bank.<\/p>\n

Egypt\u2019s president Abdel Fatteh al-Sisi was among those cheering, declaring that \u2018Egyptians have succeeded in ending the crisis\u2019 despite the operation\u2019s \u2018massive technical complexity.\u2019<\/p>

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Lieutenant-general Osama Rabei said salvage crews would resume their attempts to pull the Panama-flagged ship into the middle of the waterway later on Monday.<\/p>

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