Water transport

Bodrum, Turkey's tourism hotspot in the Aegean coasts, which has become a destination for million-dollar luxury yachts over the last decade, has welcomed its first superyacht of the year docked in Yalıkavak Marina on the north of the Bodrum Peninsula.

With the Marshall Islands flag on it, "Khalilah," the 48-meter-long superyacht, belongs to Russian oil baron Alexei Golubovich.

A canal services firm says that salvage teams have "partially refloated" the colossal container ship that remains wedged across the Suez Canal, without providing further details about when the vessel would be set free.

Salvage teams on March 29 set free a colossal container ship that has halted global trade through the Suez Canal, bringing an end to a crisis that for nearly a week had clogged one of the world's most vital maritime arteries.

Turkish Satellite Göktürk-1 has captured the high definition image of the stuck Ever Given ship in the Suez Canal.

The MV Ever Given, which is longer than four football fields, has been wedged diagonally across the canal since March 23, blocking it in both directions.

A giant container ship remained stuck sideways in Egypt's Suez Canal for a fifth day on March 27, as authorities prepared to make new attempts to free the vessel and reopen a crucial east-west waterway for global shipping.

A megaship blocking the Suez Canal may cause a new toilet paper crisis, it is claimed.

It comes just a year after UK supermarket shelves were stripped of toilet roll in a frenzy of panic buying just before the first lockdown.

A massive container ship remains wedged in the Suez Canal

A container ship blocking the Suez Canal like a "beached whale" sent new shockwaves through global trade on Thursday as officials stopped all ships entering the channel and the salvage company said it may take weeks to free.

A skyscraper-sized cargo ship wedged across Egypt's Suez Canal further imperiled global shipping on March 25 as at least 150 other vessels needing to pass through the crucial waterway idled waiting for the obstruction to clear, authorities said.

A cargo container ship that's among the largest in the world has turned sideways and blocked all traffic in Egypt's Suez Canal, officials said on March 24, threatening to disrupt a global shipping system already strained by the coronavirus pandemic.