Officials say cargo ship on the move again after almost a week stuck in Suez Canal

Suez, Egypt — The colossal container ship that spent almost a week wedged across the Suez Canal was "successfully refloated" and on the move again on Monday, according to Egypt's canal authority and an agency that helps run the shipping channel, but it was unclear when the logjam of ships at either end of the critical waterway might be cleared.

A statement posted on Monday morning to the Egyptian government's Suez Canal Authority (SCA), attributed to chairman and director Admiral Osama Rabie, said the MV Ever Given "has been successfully refloated. This was the result of successful push and tow maneuvers which led to the restoration of 80% of the vessel's direction." High tide later on Monday morning appeared to help crews move the hulking ship back into the center of the canal, and a statement posted online by the Leth agency, which provides myriad services for the canal in partnership with the SCA, said later that the Ever Given was "now underway to Great Bitter Lake," a holding lake in the middle of the canal. That northerly movement suggested that all canal traffic could soon resume, and the SCA said it would hold a news conference at 8 p.m. local time (2 p.m. Eastern) to give an update on the movement of other vessels.