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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.

The Suez Canal authority issued a relevant statement

Engineers on March 29  "partially refloated" the colossal container ship that continues to block traffic through the Suez Canal, a canal services firm said, without providing further details about when the vessel would be fully set free.

Turkey has approved development plans for a huge canal on the edge of Istanbul, Environment Minister Murat Kurum said on March 27.

The step came a year after Turkey held its first tender for the reconstruction of two historic bridges in its largest city where the 45 kilometers-long Kanal Istanbul, championed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is set to be dug.

Efforts to dislodge a giant container ship blocking the Suez Canal have allowed its stern and rudder to move, but it remains unclear when the vessel will be refloated, the head of the canal authority said on March 27.

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 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.

The death of one of the two people who were hospitalized on suspicion of food poisoning after eating fish has raised concerns of poisonous puffer fish.

Last week, a fishmonger living in the eastern province of Van cooked a puffer fish, which he likened to the rockfish, with someone else, reportedly a baker.

Some 28,000 pufferfish were caught in 23 days within the scope of a project initiated by Turkey's Agriculture and Forestry Ministry, according to a report by daily Hürriyet.