Tag Archives: Suez Canal

Cairo, Egypt | Xinhua | A large oil tanker stranded in Egypt’s Suez Canal was refloated late Wednesday, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said on Thursday. “The vessel coming from Portugal ran aground in the Suez Canal at about 7 p.m. local time (1700 GMT) on Wednesday, and tug boats released …

Cairo, Egypt | Xinhua | The Panamanian-flagged and Japanese-owned ship Ever Given on Friday crossed the Suez Canal for the first time since it blocked the waterway for six days in March, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said in a statement. “The 400-metre, 220,000-ton container ship that was docked at the …

Ismailia, Egypt | Xinhua | The Ever Given container ship which blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week in March began its journey out of the canal on Wednesday, said Suez Canal Authority (SCA) Chairman Osama Rabie. The SCA has held the giant ship in a lake between two stretches …

  Ismailia, Egypt | XINHUA |  Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority (SCA) announced on Sunday the captain of Ever Given was fully responsible for the grounding of the huge cargo vessel that blocked the canal for six days in March. “It is due to the captain’s repeated orders in a very …

Ever Given will not be allowed to leave Egypt until a compensation amount is settled with its owners, canal authority said Cairo, Egypt | Xinhua | Egypt offered to cut its compensation claim down to 550 million U.S. dollars against the impounded Ever Given vessel that blocked the Suez Canal in …

  Cairo, Egypt | XINHUA |  The Suez Canal, one of the world’s most vital shipping routes, was blocked after one of the world’s largest container ships ran aground in the narrow man-made channel early Tuesday, which has disrupted global shipments for days. Here is a timeline of this global …

Cairo, Egypt | Xinhua | One of the world’s largest cargo containers has run aground in the new channel of the Suez Canal after being blown off course by a dust storm, causing a divert of other huge vessels to the old channel to ease the traffic. “The 224,000-ton Ever Given, …

Ismailia, Egypt | AFP | Since the Suez Canal was inaugurated amid pomp and ceremony 150 years ago, it has become one of the world’s most important waterways. But its anniversary will only be discreetly marked in Egypt. The man-made canal was excavated between 1859 and 1869, in an ambitious project …