Weather of Arabia - The Egyptian Suez Canal Authority revealed, today, Wednesday, that the giant Panamanian container ship has been partially floated. Navigation is gradually resuming.
In turn, the company that belongs to the stranded ship in Suez said that "the ship is still stranded."
The head of the Egyptian Suez Canal Authority, Lieutenant General Osama Rabie, announced today that the rescue units and the Authority's locomotives will continue their efforts to rescue and float the giant Panamanian container ship EVER GIVEN, which ran aground at km 151, numbering the canal, while crossing the Suez Canal within the southern convoy on its next voyage from China. To Rotterdam, this came during his follow-up of rescue work and procedures for floating the ship from the site of the accident.
It is worth noting that the Panamanian container vessel EVER GIVEN follows the EVER GREEN shipping line. The vessel is 400 meters long and 59 meters wide, with a total tonnage of 224,000 tons.
Source: Arabic
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