On Monday morning, salvage teams managed to free the container ship, the Ever Green, blocking the Suez Canal. The situation posed a potential global crisis and cost billions of dollars in lost trade. Elite salvage teams combined the high tide with tugboats to refloat the lodged ship after removing 30,000 cubic meters of sediment.
The tugboats blasted their horns as the escorted the Ever Given ship out of the canal. The celebration marks the end of over a tumultuous period marked by uncertainty around global trade.