Two additional boats speed to Ever Given on Sunday to assist in the effort to free the massive container ship that had been anchored through the vital waterway for several days.

Satellite data from MarineTraffic.com showed the Alp Guard flying the Dutch flag and Carlo Magno, who raises the Italian flag, were called in to assist the tugboats already in place, and arrived at the Red Sea near the city of Suez early on Sunday.

The ship’s management company, Bernard Schulte (BSM), said 11 tugboats were operating all day on Saturday alongside ongoing dredging operations, which continue to remove sand and mud from around the port side of the ship’s bow.

In a press conference, the Suez Canal Authority said 14 tugboats – three times higher than the BSM number – were working to free the ship yesterday.

There were 327 vessels raised on either side of the Everglades as of Sunday morning.

Of these, 134 are located near Port Said at the northern end of the canal, at the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea.

42 of them wait at Great Bitter Lake, about two-thirds of the way along the southbound waterway to Suez.

And 151 are waiting at the southern end near the port of Suez.

Two attempts to free Ever Given on Saturday night failed despite hopes the rising tide would bolster the effort.

Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, the ship’s management, said about a dozen tug boats operated on Saturday in tandem with dredging operations that were removing sand and mud from around the left side of the bow.

But despite the favorable conditions, they did not succeed.