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In the beginning, there was the ever given, a 1300 foot 200,000 ton shipping vessel owned

by Evergreen. To keep things confusing, Evergreen is Taiwanese, the ship is Japanese, and

it flies a Panamanian flag. Some 18,000 containers embarked from the Yentien District of China

headed for the Rotterdam Netherlands. But then the ever given met high winds and sandstorms.

In the Suez Canal, the ship ran aground. On the first day, the world couldn't quite

believe the Suez Canal was blocked. The fastest route from Asia to Europe and onto North America

easily blocked by a ship nearly 200 feet wide.

Observers looked up the ship's course and realized sometime before it got stuck. It had

roamed around the waters and the shape of a dill.

Wow, what a Johnson. That's a big Johnson. An irreverent turn for a very serious story.

The online monitoring system tanker trackers shows the huge backlog it's created a traffic

jam, basically with ships unable to pass in either direction.

On the second day, more tugboats. A fleet of tugboats has been trying to reflote the

mega ship ever since while a digger tiny by comparison tries to extricate her bow from

the eastern bank. The tugboats were smaller in size and failed to free the ship after

countless tries.

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