Traffic on the Suez Canal is reported to be resuming.
“Admiral Osama Rabie, head of the Suez Canal Board (SCA), has announced the resumption of shipping on the Suez Canal,” the SCA said in a statement.
Earlier, shipping monitoring websites showed that Ever Given had turned around again and blocked the canal.
???? #Egypt_projects????????|
The video was taken minutes ago for the EVER GIVEN ship in the Suez Canal, the ship did not return to its previous position as mentioned in some news agencies.#Egypt #Suez #SuezCanal #EVERGIVEN #Evergreen #Suez Canal #Pandemic ship pic.twitter.com/cdvXckRrVHEgypt Projects Egypt (@EgyProjects) March 29, 2021
#BREAKING #Suez Canal Authority Reuters report, saying that the Ever Given vessel has successfully floated and entered the canal’s navigational watersection.#SuezCrisis #suezcanel #The ship_danger #Suez Canal pic.twitter.com/GyITfb11Tq
— Daily News Egypt (@DailyNewsEgypt) March 29, 2021
The Suez Canal administration said in a statement that the giant ship had been completely released on Monday and that shipping on the Suez Canal had resumed.
The channel maintenance company also confirmed that Ever Given is no longer stuck.
Leth Agencies wrote on Twitter: “We are extremely pleased to confirm that the administration and staff of the Suez Canal have successfully released M / V EVER GIVEN. The ship is currently en route to the Great Bitter Lake. He is no longer stuck. “
–
During the night, several dredgers cleared 27,000 cubic meters of mud and sand around the MV Ever Given, and tugs tried to pull it off.
It was announced on Monday morning that the MV Ever Given had moved, it had been pulled from the shallows.
The 400-meter-long Panamanian-flagged MV Ever Given crashed across the canal on Tuesday, blocking any movement on this waterway, greatly shortening the route between Asia and Europe and North America.
© Stopkadras
–
According to Lloyd’s List, in total, one day of the closure of the Suez Canal disrupts more than 9 billion. movement of dollars (7.6 billion euros) worth of goods on this waterway. A quarter of the daily traffic on the Suez Canal is related to container vessels such as Ever Given.
Built in 2018, the MV Ever Given, almost 400 m long and 59 m wide, is among the largest merchant ships in the world and can carry approximately 20,000 ships at a time. containers. He was previously in Chinese ports and sailed to Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
Opened in 1869, the Suez Canal is an important route for transporting oil, natural gas and cargo. 10% travel on it. all cargo in international maritime trade.
The BBC’s business correspondent Theo Leggett says that once the MV Ever Given container ship sails out of the Suez Canal, disrupted global trade will not return.
Some ships have already sailed out of the region – they have decided to sail another, longer route along the southern part of Africa. This longer route will be chosen by others – ships waiting from East Asia to Europe, those whose operators have decided not to take risks and not wait for the reopening of the Suez Canal.
Early Monday, a Japanese-owned ship was partially knocked out and the president of Egypt Abdel Fattahas al Sisi hastened to congratulate the “successful” end of the operation.
“Today, the Egyptians managed to end the crisis caused by the stuck ship in the Suez Canal, despite the enormous complexity of the process,” AF al Sisi posted on Twitter.
It is estimated that Egypt blocking the channel cost about 12-14 million people a day. USD (EUR 10.2-11.9 million), according to SCA.
After the release of 200 thousand. tons of ship, the congestion of ships wishing to cross the canal should dissipate in about a day and a half, Rabie said.
Rescue crews worked around the clock.
The main focus was on the removal of sand around the ship: at a depth of 18 m, 27 thousand. cub. meters, SCA spokesman George Safwat said on Sunday.
Further consequences
The crisis has forced companies to choose between waiting or sending ships to sail around Africa, despite the sharp rise in fuel costs, an additional 9,000. km of road and weeks lost.
Several countries have offered their help in unblocking the channel, including JAV. Russia made a similar offer on Sunday.
The possible consequences of the blockade of the Suez Canal are also shown by the announcement by the war-torn Syrian authorities that the crisis has hit its fuel imports from Iran, which has necessitated the regulation of already meager stocks.
The Romanian Animal Health Agency has announced that 11 live animals from the country’s ships have been affected, and the charity Animals International has warned of a possible death toll of around 130,000. animal “tragedies”.
–
It is strictly forbidden to use the information published by DELFI on other websites, in the media or elsewhere, or to distribute our material in any form without consent, and if consent has been obtained, it is necessary to cite DELFI as the source.
