Mammoth Ever Arm vessel crosses Suez Canal on its maiden voyage

CAIRO – 15 April 2022: The Suez Canal international route witnessed on Thursday the crossing of the mammoth Ever Arm vessel on its maiden voyage heading to the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands from Malaysia.

 

 

 

 

 

This comes only two weeks after the SCA announced celebrating the anniversary of the flotation of the Panamanian container ship "Ever Given", in the new Marina building, east of the Suez Canal.

The Ever Given ship ran aground in the Suez Canal on March 23, 2021, and the Suez Canal Authority succeeded in floating it six days after the accident, where it was towed to the Bitter Lakes near the city of Fayed in Ismailia Governorate.

The vessel's deviation caused the navigation movement to stop In the canal, the men of the Suez Canal Authority succeeded in floating the ship by using dredging operations for the first time in the world close to the ship, to re-float it without any unloading of the shipment.

The Ever Given Ship, one of the largest container ships in the world, has a length of 400 meters, a width of 59 meters, and a total tonnage of 224,000 tons.

Egypt’s Suez Canal recorded revenues of $1.691 million during the first quarter of 2022, compared to $1.409 million during the same quarter of 2021, marking an increase of 20 percent, Rabie said earlier this month.

Rabie said that the navigation statistics in the canal during the first quarter of 2022 recorded a remarkable increase in the number and tonnage of ships transiting the canal, and it has not been affected so far by the repercussions of the Ukrainian-Russian crisis.

He said, in a press statement, that the number of ships transiting the canal from January to March this year amounted to 5,303 ships, compared to 4,581 ships transiting during the same period last year, with an increase of 15.8 percent, or 722 ships

While the tonnage crossing the canal increased by 7.4 percent or 21.6 million tons, net loads recorded during the first quarter of this year were 313.3 million tons, compared to 291.7 million tons last year.