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The Suez Canal finally open again after the giant vessel that had it for a week is refloated. The 220,000-ton Ever Given container ship to get between both sides of the strategic waterway last week. The subsequent blockage global trade and international markets. Analysts forecast it has Egypt $100 million in lost revenue. The week-long jam there is a backlog of ships waiting to sail through the canal. More than 450 ships are in the Red Sea or in the Mediterranean near both ends of the canal. Authorities say they will try and the daily average of 50 ships to through the channel to around 90 to 100 vessels.

There been a monumental effort over the past week to free the 400-metre-long Ever Given. Dredgers have been sand underneath it in an attempt to refloat it, and a flotilla of 30 tug boats worked to it away from the canal's banks. They were by a high tide in the final hours of the salvage operation. Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El Sisi everyone who part in the effort to the ship. On social media, he said the refloating was successful despite there being "massive technical complexity". He added: "The world can now assured about the passage of goods through this pivotal shipping route. Egyptians today that they always up to the challenge."