The 1,300-foot container ship that blocked the Suez Canal for six days has been freed and has begun to move north, the Suez Canal Authority said. WSJ’s Rory Jones explains the rescue efforts and ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Zachary Karabell, author of Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal, about the dream to build a waterway that would unite the East and the West.

Since it was completed in 1869, the Suez Canal has been one of the world’s most important bodies of water; a portal between East and West that has been controlled by multiple countries ...

Rescue efforts underway in Egypt to refloat giant cargo ship run aground, blocking Suez Canal 02:21. Tel Aviv — The massive container ship that ran aground in Egypt's Suez Canal early this week ...

The Suez Canal Authority said canal traffic would resume by evening. It's not known how long it will take to clear the backlog of more than 300 ships waiting to enter the canal.

ISMAILIA, Egypt — Egyptian authorities announced the release Wednesday of a hulking shipping vessel that had blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week earlier this year. The Ever Given left the ...

BEIRUT — The giant container ship that had plugged the Suez Canal for nearly a week was dragged off the channel’s banks and refloated Monday, allowing ships to once again traverse the 120-mile ...

The container ship Ever Given is refloated, unblocking the Suez Canal on March 29, 2021 in Suez, Egypt. This morning, the container ship came partly unstuck from the shoreline, where it ran ...

It is the result of a collaboration between Japan and Egypt. on Janvier 20, 2017 in Suez Canal, Red sea, Egypt. (Photo by Camille Delbos/Art In All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images) ...

[Update: After nearly a week, the Ever Given, the mammoth container ship stuck in the Suez Canal, has been freed.]. LONDON — The world got another warning this week about the perils of its heavy ...

How did a ship get stuck? The MV Ever Given, owned by the Japanese firm Shoei Kisen KK, grounded to the bottom of the canal Tuesday. The ship is about as long as the Empire State Building is tall.