At least 6 ships will be late getting over to Virginia because of the Suez Canal blockage

Ever Given? More like Ever Taken Away.

The massive, Empire State Building-sized container ship is blocking the Suez Canal, sitting diagonally across the crucial waterway through which about 12% of global trade moves.

That means ripple effects 6,000 miles or so away in Hampton Roads, home to one of the largest container ports along the east coast.

As of Thursday, there were six container ships scheduled to call on Hampton Roads in April that are waiting at the canal’s southern entrance, said Joe Harris, a Port of Virginia spokesman.

Images of the Ever Given have circulated on social media over the past couple days. Crews are trying to dig out the ship where it sits aground in the southern part of the canal.

With some experts saying it could take days or weeks to re-float the Ever Given, impacts of the blockage in Egypt are becoming more apparent for ports across the world.

“Once reopened, the canal has capacity to efficiently clear the backlog of waiting vessels, but ships will not be able to recover their schedules after a multi-day delay, meaning some of April’s cargo will be late to arrive,” a Port of Virginia statement says.

If the canal stays closed for several days, ocean carriers will start routing ships bound for the east coast of the United States around the Cape of Good Hope — at the tip of South Africa — and increase use of the Panama Canal, the statement read.

The Ever Given ran aground during the heavy winds of a sandstorm Tuesday, according to The New York Times.

Efforts to push the ship back into the deeper water have proved difficult. It weighs in at 200,000 metric tons. A yellow excavator has been working on the canal banks to dig out the bow.

The blockage was holding up roughly $9.6 billion worth of traffic a day, according to Bloomberg, which cited calculations from Lloyd’s List.

There were 185 vessels waiting to cross the canal Wednesday, the news site reported.