Weather of Arabia - The Panamanian container ship "Evergifen" entered the waterway of the Suez Canal, and is now crossing the canal within the convoy of the south coming from the Red Sea in the direction of the Mediterranean through the new Suez Canal, will it be safe to cross this time after the delinquency incident that closed the Suez Canal for 6 days Last March?!
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The Suez Canal Authority raised the state of emergency within the navigational course of the canal, to cross the ship safely, and two locomotives, one in the front and the other in the rear, were assigned to accompany the ship during its transit journey. In addition, the Suez Canal Authority chose two of its best senior guides to guide the Panamanian ship during its journey. The navy in the Suez Canal, which may take about 10 hours, is Captain Hisham al-Imam, and Rayan Raouf Zaki, who had previously been appointed to guide her during her return trip from Holland.
The ship "Evergifen" sailed during its current voyage from the Malaysian port of "Tanjung Pelepas", loaded on November 30 at full capacity, and arrived yesterday evening, Thursday, at the Bab al-Mandab Strait separating Yemen and the African coast, and began to cross it heading across the Red Sea to the Suez Canal at a speed of 20.5 knots, or 38 kilometers per hour, bound for Europe.
The Ever Geffen ship is one of the largest container ships in the world, known in the media as the stranded ship, which ran aground in the Suez Canal on March 23, at point 151 numbering the canal, and the Suez Canal succeeded in floating it 6 days after the accident , which obstructed Navigation through the vital shipping lane for global trade, and it was towed and towed to the Bitter Lakes region near the city of Fayed in Ismailia, and was kept for 107 days inside the shipping lane to resolve the dispute between the Suez Canal and the owner company over compensation.
The ship "Evergevin" ran aground last March, during its voyage from China to the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, then returned again after unloading its cargo and crossed the channel again within the northern convoy coming from the Mediterranean towards the Red Sea, on August 20, and returned to the city of Qingdao Coastal East China, to carry out maintenance and repairs, and the ship underwent over 20 days of repair at the shipyard of Qingdao Beihai Heavy Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.
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