EGYPT-TRANSPORT-SUEZ-CANAL

An aerial view taken on March 27, 2021 from the porthole of a commercial plane shows stranded ships waiting in queue in the Gulf of Suez to cross the Suez Canal at its southern entrance near the Red Sea port city of Suez, as the waterway remains blocked by the Panama-flagged container ship "MV Ever Given", which has remained wedged sideways about six kilometres north of the canal's entrance impeding all flowing traffic since March 23. - The owner of a megaship blocking the canal hopes to refloat it as early as today, as the crisis forced companies to re-route services from the vital shipping lane around Africa. The MV Ever Given, which is longer than four football fields, has been wedged diagonally across the span of the canal since four days, blocking the waterway in both directions. (Photo by Mahmoud KHALED / AFP) (Photo by MAHMOUD KHALED/AFP via Getty Images)