Tous the “ships on standby” since the grounding of theEver Given, a huge container ship that got stuck across the Suez Canal on March 23, has left the waterway, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) announced on Saturday April 3. “Admiral Ossama Rabie, president of the SCA, announced on Saturday that all the ships waiting in the canal since the grounding of the Panamanian container ship Ever Given had crossed “the Isthmus of Suez, according to a press release from the authority.
Flying the Panamanian flag and operated by the Taiwanese shipowner Evergreen Marine Corporation, the giant ship – as long as four football fields – was refloated on March 29, after being immobilized for nearly a week. TheEver Given was towed towards the Great Amer Lake in the middle of the Suez Canal and traffic resumed that same evening between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. Unheard of in its scale, the incident brought traffic to a complete stop on this crucial sea route linking Asia and Europe and representing more than 10% of international trade. A total of 422 ships, loaded with 26 million tonnes of cargo, SCA said, were stranded in the massive traffic jam.
Numbering 61, the last ships on standby since the passage of theEver Given were able to cross the canal on Saturday, as well as “24 new ships”, according to the same press release. The first – more than a hundred – were able to use the canal on the night of March 29 to 30, a few hours after the mega-ship was refloated. Nearly 19,000 ships used the canal in 2020, according to the SCA, an average of 51.5 ships per day.
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