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In the Suez Canal in Egypt, tugs have refloated a ship that has run aground.
The ship had briefly blocked the southern section of the canal, said the responsible canal authority SCA.
The reason the oil tanker flying the Singapore flag got stuck was a technical problem with the rudder.
According to the ship monitoring service TankerTrackers, the "Affinity V" owned by the shipping company Aframax had lost control on the way south in the waterway that is so important for global shipping.
"She temporarily obstructed traffic and is now heading south again, but is moving slowly with the help of tugs," TankerTrackers said on Twitter.
The »Affinity V« was built in 2016.
It is 252 meters long and 45 meters wide.
According to the canal authority, your interim stuck did not have a major impact on shipping.
In the meantime, the navigation for other ships is no longer affected, it said.
In March, the 400-meter-long "Ever Given" blocked the Suez Canal for around a week - and thus caused delays in world trade and in supply chains (read a reconstruction of the accident of the container freighter here).
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