Suez Canal

Admiral Ossama Rabiee, the chairman of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), announced today that navigation through the canal was again running smoothly, following ...

[Ever Given ](https://www.marinelog.com/?s=%22Ever+Given%22)all over again, but thankfully it wasn’t. Once the incident took place, a crisis management team was immediately put together and five tugboats were been mobilized, the largest being the SCA tugboat Ezzat Adel with a bollard pull capacity of 160 tons. [Nick Blenkey](https://www.marinelog.com/author/nick-blenkey/)

It occurred in the same stretch where a giant cargo ship was stuck for six days in March last year. Read more at straitstimes.com.

By Thursday morning, Refinitiv ship-tracking data and the Marine Traffic website showed that the Affinity V had passed through the canal and was in the Gulf of Suez. The Suez Canal Authority released video showing its chairman, Mr Osama Rabie, in a control room where staff were working to resolve the problem, and footage of the tanker being escorted in the canal by tugs. The 252m vessel, Affinity V, had drifted to obstruct the southern section of the canal while travelling in a southbound convoy of ships around 1700 GMT (1am Thursday in Singapore), shipping and canal sources said.

The Suez Canal was blocked for several hours after an oil tanker got stranded in the single-lane stretch of the canal.

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A Belgian aframax has been refloated following a grounding in the Suez Canal that disrupted traffic for a number of hours.

The Affinity V "ran aground in the Suez Canal at 19:15" (17:15 GMT)", a security source told AFP, adding that maritime traffic had been restored after "a short ...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi approved a project in May to widen and deepen the southern portion of the canal where the Ever Given had gotten stuck. The incident was caused by "technical damage to the rudder resulting in a loss of control of the ship", according to the Suez Canal Authority, which said the 64,000-ton tanker had been "successfully refloated". According to the website Vessel Finder, the 250-meter-long, Singaporean-flagged tanker is headed for the Saudi port of Yanbu.