The drawings are not at all to scale making it hard to comprehend the issue. The ship has a draft of 16m. the canal is 24m deep in the 121m wide fairway, quick

The drawings are not at all to scale making it hard to comprehend the issue. The ship has a draft of 16m. the canal is 24m deep in the 121m wide fairway, quickly becoming shallower outside. This allows for the navigation of ships with up to 20m draft. For the actual side gradients see this image: https://www.suezcanal.gov.eg/English/About/SuezCanal/PublishingImages/canal-charactristic_l.gif https://www.suezcanal.gov.eg/English/About/SuezCanal/Publish... For extra credit assume some block coefficient and calculate how much sand was moved pushing all the way up to both banks. Both sides are firmly stuck in the banks. This means unloading containers until the front of the ships starts to float again will tip the vessel aft lodging that side even harder. Same with the reverse. So to do that you would need to unload from both sides to not risk cracking the hull or make one side more firmly stuck. Therefore likely unloading from the middle also. Now you need barges and cranes. The vessel is 60m wide and the height is about 70m, say 60m to the highest container. A container may weigh up to 30 tons. It's an awful operation. Really tough challenge.