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CAIRO (AP) — The Suez Canal Authority said Monday that a cargo vessel carrying maize that went aground successful the Egyptian waterway was refloated and canal postulation was restored.
Canal services steadfast Leth Agencies said the vessel, MV Glory, ran aground adjacent the metropolis of Qantara, successful the Suez Canal state of Ismailia. The steadfast said 3 canal tugboats had been moving to refloat the vessel.
Officials had nary details connected what caused the vessel to deed ground. Parts of Egypt, including its bluish provinces, experienced a question of atrocious upwind Sunday.
Satellite tracking information analyzed by The Associated Press showed the Glory successful a single-lane agelong of the Suez Canal conscionable southbound of Port Said connected the Mediterranean Sea.
Leth Agencies aboriginal posted a graphic that suggested the Glory was against the westbound slope of the canal, pointed southbound and not wedged crossed the channel. It identified the 3 tugs aiding the vas arsenic the Port Said, Svitzer Suez 1 and Ali Shalabi.
It wasn’t the archetypal vas to tally aground successful the important waterway. The Panama-flagged Ever Given, a colossal instrumentality ship, crashed into a slope connected a single-lane agelong of the canal successful March 2021, blocking the waterway for six days.
The Ever Given was freed successful a elephantine salvage cognition by a flotilla of tugboats. The blockage created a monolithic postulation jam that held up $9 cardinal a time successful planetary commercialized and strained proviso chains already burdened by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Ever Given debacle prompted Egyptian authorities to statesman widening and deepening the waterway’s confederate portion wherever the vas deed ground.
In August, the Singaporean-flagged Affinity V lipid tanker ran aground successful a single-lane agelong of the canal, blocking the waterway for 5 hours earlier it was freed.
The Joint Coordination Center listed the Glory arsenic carrying implicit 65,000 metric tons of maize from Ukraine bound for China.
The Glory was inspected by the Joint Coordination Center disconnected Istanbul connected Jan. 3. The halfway includes Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian and United Nations staffers.
Opened successful 1869, the Suez Canal provides a important nexus for oil, earthy state and cargo. It besides remains 1 of Egypt’s apical overseas currency earners. In 2015, the authorities of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi completed a large enlargement of the canal, allowing it to accommodate the world’s largest vessels.
The Glory is 225-meters (738-feet) long.
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Associated Press writer Jon Gambrell successful Dubai, United Arab Emirates contributed.
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