The Suez Canal announced the success of the floating operations of the “Glory” ship, and the return of navigation to normal.
The head of the Suez Canal Authority, Lieutenant General Osama Rabie, told Al-Arabiya that the “Glory” ship ran aground slightly with the southern convoy and is being floated.
The head of the authority added that the delinquency of the ship “Glory” did not affect the navigation movement.
For its part, the “Leith Agensis” company, which owns the Glory ship, announced the success of the Suez Canal Authority’s locomotives in floating the ship.
And the “Leith Agensis” company had announced earlier on “Twitter”, today, Monday, that a ship called “Glory” ran aground in Suez Canal While crossing with the south caravan near the city of Qantara.
Data on two ship-tracking websites showed that the Glory was a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo ship.
Rabie pointed out, in a separate statement issued by the authority, that the authority’s marine rescue team dealt professionally with a sudden technical failure of the machinery of the bulk ship GLORY at kilometer 38 passing within the northern convoy on its journey coming from Turkey and heading to China, where work is now underway on the ship’s diameter per kilometer. 51 meter channel numbering.
Lieutenant General Osama Rabie sent a message of reassurance regarding the regularity of navigation in the canal, as the entry of 26 ships from the southern convoy was organized, and the northern convoy will cross after the ship GLORY resumed crossing the canal with the help of the authority’s locomotives.
Lieutenant General Rabie affirmed that the authority possesses the necessary rescue expertise and the necessary navigational and technical insurance capabilities to deal professionally with potential emergency situations.
The head of the authority stated that 4 locomotives were pushed forward by the Port Said locomotive with a tensile strength of 95 tons, to quickly deal with the situation and towing the ship, allowing it to resume crossing the canal again until it stopped at the nearest point in the Al-Balah area to fix the malfunction.
The vessel is 225 meters long and 32 meters wide, with a tonnage of 41,000 tons. It belongs to the shipping agency “Inchecape”.
Today, Monday, navigational reports record the crossing of 51 ships from both directions, and the number of ships crossing from the north direction is 25 ships, and from the south direction, 26 ships cross the new navigational channel of the canal.
The Suez Canal Authority had dealt quickly with the temporary delinquency of one of the ships passing through the canal in September 2021, which is the CORAL CRYSTAL casting vessel, during its transit of the canal within the northern convoy with the 54-kilometer numbering channel at the western Al-Balah branch, with a tonnage of 43 thousand tons.
It is noteworthy that in March 2021, the huge container ship “Evergiven”, operated by the “Evergreen” company, closed the Suez Canal for six days after it ran aground during a sandstorm, which led to traffic disruption on one of the busiest shipping routes and caused chaos. commercial.