Ever Given got stuck in the Suez Canal, and then got freed.

 

How a ship got stuck in the Suez Canal, and then freed

The article I  choose is about the Ever Given getting stuck in the Suez Canal and how it got out. 
https://newsela.com/read/ship-stuck-in-suez-canal/id/2001019845/

The Ever Given a is one of the largest ships in the world, which got stuck in the Suez Canal, an important ship route.  It is 400 meters or 1,300 feet long.  It is equivalent to the length of the Empire State building.  A sand storm hit which caused the ship to get stuck sideways across the canal. The stacked containers also might have caused it to get stuck. They might have worked like sails. There were 360 ships waiting to use the canal. There was a delay, that means it could also mean a delay of delivering goods. It took dozen tug boats and dredging machines to get it out. 6 days later the tides were high enough that the crew removed the ship and let it free. To this day we still aren't exactly sure how the Ever Given got stuck.   

It is important that they got the ship free.  The Suez canal is still an important route for energy and goods.  It is the shortest route from Europe to Asia.  The canals location is a key region for shipping oil.  There are approximately one million barrels of oil that travel through the Suez daily.