New Delhi, March 26, 2021: The entire crew of the skyscraper-sized cargo ship wedged across Egypt’s Suez Canal, which imperiled global shipping, happens to be Indian.
Shoei Kisen Kaisha, the ship’s Japanese owner, said all the crew aboard Ever Given came from India, the Associated Press reported. Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, the company that manages the Ever Given, said the ship’s 25-member crew are safe and accounted for.
The ship had two pilots from Egypt’s canal authority aboard the vessel to guide it when the grounding happened around 7:45 am on Tuesday, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement said according to the reports published in moneycontrol.com.
On Thursday, at least 150 other vessels needing to pass through the crucial waterway idled waiting for the obstruction to clear, authorities said.
