Egypt’s Suez Canal safe, highly secured: SCA Chief

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Mon, 05 Apr 2021 - 08:48 GMT

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Mon, 05 Apr 2021 - 08:48 GMT

File- A ship is passing through the Suez Canal after refloating the Ever Given vessel- Press photo

File- A ship is passing through the Suez Canal after refloating the Ever Given vessel- Press photo

CAIRO – 5 April 2021: The Suez Canal is safe and highly secured by the Egyptian army and its navigational movement goes smoothly after the end of the exceptional and unprecedented accident of the Panama-flagged Ever Given ship, said the Suez Canal Authority Head Admiral Osama Rabie in a statement on Monday.
 
He added that the Suez Canal’s marine garages along the old shipping lane are being maintained, while new garages will be established along the new lane, which was inaugurated in 2015.
 
He affirmed the canal’s dedicated efforts in enhancing its capabilities to deal effectively with any possible emergency case in the navigational course.
 
In addition to this, he said that the authority is developing the 16 maritime shipping control units, tugboats, dredges, and launches, praising the efforts exerted by the authority’s 600 personnel who participated in solving the crisis of Ever Given’s grounding.
 
On March 23, 2021, the Panama-flagged ship went aground in the canal’s 151 km, where the ships in both directions move, causing a suspension of the maritime navigation for six days.
 
A total of 422 ships were stranded over six days of the suspension of the maritime traffic in the canal. Freed at 3:00 pm (Cairo time) on Monday by 15 giant tugboats, Ever Given was pulled by two gigantic tugboats from its bow and entered the Great Bitter Lakes in Ismailia at 5:45 pm and the navigation resumed at 6:00 pm on Monday evening. All the stranded vessels have already passed through the canal in a record time of six days.
 
 
 

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