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The crew of a dredging boat that helped free a massive container ship stuck in the Suez Canal for nearly a week burst into gleeful chants on Monday.

“Mashhour is No. 1!” yelled the Egyptian crewmembers of the boat Mashhour, according to a tweet featuring the footage.

The dredging crew had just helped extract the Ever Given, a colossal container vessel that ran aground in the canal Tuesday and had been blocking the crucial worldwide shipping lane.

It took about four days for the dredger to complete the job, helped by other sand-shifting ships, tugboats and the tides.

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The Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship is accompanied by Suez Canal tugboats as it moves in the Suez Canal, Egypt
The Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship is accompanied by Suez Canal tugboats as it moves in the Suez Canal, EgyptAP
A view of the Ever Given
A view of the Ever GivenEPA
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The Ever Given, a large container ship ran aground in the Suez Canal, blocking passage of other ships and causing a traffic jam for cargo vessels
The Ever Given, a large container ship ran aground in the Suez Canal, blocking passage of other ships and causing a traffic jam for cargo vesselsEPA
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