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Suez: Progress is being made in the attempt to free the container vessel blocking the Suez Canal, the head of the Suez Canal Authority said Saturday, but declined to set a timetable for when the operation will be over. He also said strong wind was not the main reason for the grounding of the MV Ever Given cargo ship in the waterway. “Strong winds and weather factors were not the main reasons for the ship’s grounding, there may have been technical or human errors,” Osama Rabie said at a press conference in Suez. A new attempt to re-float the 400-metre-long...
