Cairo-Sana
The advisor to the Egyptian President, Mohab Mamish, expects the end of the delinquent ship crisis in the Suez Canal before the end of this week.
Masrawy quoted the consultant as saying, "It is likely that the delinquent ship crisis will end before the end of this week," noting that "such accidents are possible as 18,000 ships pass through the Suez Canal annually."
Mamish considered that this accident "will not affect the Suez Canal," indicating that the company that owns the delinquent ship will pay all the losses resulting from the accident.
Mamish said, "The strong winds are the cause of the ship's running aground on the right side of the Suez Canal."
In addition, the Suez Canal Authority announced in a statement that 9 giant locomotives are resuming attempts to float the delinquent ship that impeded the navigation movement in the shipping lane, explaining that the attempts to tow the ship are made using tug boats after the completion of the dredging works.
The authority stated that between 15 and 20 thousand cubic meters of sand must be removed in order to float the giant container ship that has run aground in the canal since last Tuesday.
The "Evergiven", a 400-meter-long ship with a capacity of 224,000 tons, was suspended on March 23 in the Suez Canal and blocked the waterway linking the Mediterranean with the Red Sea, and about 12 percent of global maritime trade passes through it.