The owner, Shoei Kisen Kaisha , clarified that moving the massive container ship Evergreen was becoming more difficult. He did state, though, that they are "working hard to fix the situation," according to the BBC.
After being blown off course by strong winds, the 400m-long (1,300ft) vessel got wedged in the river.
The giant ship is causing a traffic jam in one of the world's busiest waterways. At least 150 ships are now waiting to pass through the vital waterway.
The Ever Given is a 200,000-tonne ship registered in Panama and operated by Taiwanese transport company Evergreen Marine. It was heading to the port city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands from China and was passing northwards through the canal on its way to the Mediterranean via the Red Sea.
It ran aground and became lodged sideways across the waterway at about 07:40 local time (05:40 GMT) on Tuesday.
Kaisha has stated that the ship’s 25-member crew, who are all Indian nationals, were safe and no oil leaks had been detected.
There is a blockade since the Suez Channel, which links the Mediterranean and the Red Sea and is the shortest sea connection between Asia and Europe, carries about 12% of global trade.
After stopping overnight, efforts are underway to dislodge the Ever Given at high tide on Thursday morning.
It could take weeks, according to the head of a specialist recovery firm assisting with the ship's evacuation, and containers will have to be removed to lighten the load.
"We can't exclude it could take weeks, depending on the situation," Boskalis CEO Peter Berdowski told a Dutch TV station.
"It is like an enormous beached whale. It's an enormous weight on the sand. We might have to work with a combination of reducing the weight by removing containers, oil and water from the ship, tug boats, and dredging of sand," he added.
This isn't the first time a ship has run aground in the canal, blocking it. In 2017, a Japanese container ship runs aground due to suspected technical problems, blocking the canal. Tug boats were dispatched by Egyptian officials, and the ship was refloated within hours.
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