Aerial photos of the Suez Canal congestion taken by the ship ‘Ever Given' have already gone viral on social media. Still, a NASA satellite image gives users on the internet an indication of how bad the traffic was.
On Tuesday, NASA used social media to post a collage of three images. On February 1, 2021, the picture on the left portrays usual ship traffic in the Gulf of Suez. However, the next two pictures, taken in March, illustrate how the line of waiting ships became longer and longer until it reached a length of 100 kilometers.[Mady Entertainment World]
According to a NASA Earth Facebook post, the series of night-time photographs were all taken with the Suomi NPP satellite's Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS).
“The VIIRS “day-night band” absorbs light in a spectrum of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and employs filtering techniques to amplify faint signals like moonlight, gas flares, and ship lights,” according to the researchers. reads the article
“On February 1, 2021, the left picture portrays standard ship traffic in the Gulf of Suez. On March 27, a 72-kilometer line of waiting ships had formed (45 miles). Ships waited as much as 100 kilometres (60 miles) from the canal entrance two days away.On March 30, 184 vessels were also waiting to transit in, according to Leth Agencies,” it says.
The large container ship that had been blocking the Suez Canal for nearly a week was completely floated on Monday, and canal traffic will resume, according to a statement from the canal authority.
Tracking facility for ships On its website, VesselFinder has updated the ship's status to underway.
Ships have begun to move again across the Suez Canal. However, owing to the week-long stop, there has been a huge accumulation of hundreds of boats, causing traffic jams.
In high winds early Tuesday, the 400-meter-long Ever Granted became clogged diagonally across a southern portion of the canal, halting shipping traffic on the shortest shipping path between Europe and Asia.[Mady Entertainment World]
The ship is stranded due to strong winds and a massive dust storm, according to authorities.According to the report, the vessel was going approximately 5 knots faster than the Canal's authorised speed limit.
The Suez Canal Authority reported on Tuesday that the ship had been released with the assistance of the Dutch company Boskalis.
Tug boats honked their honks in excitement as the 1,300-foot-long ship was dislodged, and hundreds of other ships were seen lined up and waiting to travel through the channel.