Tag: Suez Canal

The Suez Canal was blocked for several hours after an oil tanker got stranded in the single-lane stretch of the canal — nearly the same spot where the Ever Given containership remained stuck for days in March 2021. On late...

The largest containership in the world, the 24,000 TEU Ever Ace, crossed the Suez Canal for the first time on 28 August 2021. The boxship measures 400 meters in length and 61.5 meters in width. It weighs about 235,000 tons...

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egyptian President has approved the widening and deepening of the southern part of the Suez Canal, after the 20,000TEU container vessel Ever Given crippled the critical maritime artery recently. With a length of 400 meters and a...

Two tankers ran aground in the Suez Canal this morning, GAC Egypt informed. One is reported to have been successfully refloated while work is continuing to refloat the second.   “As per information received, a 107,505 DWT ballast oil tanker ship...

The last group of ships, stranded due to the grounding of the massive container ship Ever Given in the Suez Canal, were scheduled to  cross the waterway on Saturday.  In a statement, Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), Osama Rabie,...