The success of the operation to float the stranded ship in the Suez Canal

The Egyptian Suez Canal Authority announced in a statement today, Monday, that the re-floatation of the delinquent container ship is being successfully completed, as it returned to float after its course was modified by 80%.

The Suez Canal Authority stated that the tugging operations of the delinquent container ship in the waterway would resume with the high tide later on Monday.

The authority added in a statement that the route of the Evergiven has been significantly modified by 80 percent, and that navigation traffic will resume once the ship is directed to the waiting area in the lakes.

“The ship was liberated and has already sailed,” said the advisor to the Egyptian President for the Suez Canal Corridor projects, Ihab Mamish, in statements to the official Egyptian TV today, Monday, while local media confirmed that the ship returned to its normal course and started its engines, and began to move.

This comes a few hours after the start of new tugging maneuvers to float the aground container ship, with 10 gigantic tugs operating from four different directions.

Thus, the Suez Canal crisis, which caused a crisis on both sides of the corridor, ended with the docking of more than 321 merchant ships and disrupted supply chains, especially in Europe, after the ship’s delinquency disrupted ship traffic on the international shipping route.

Last Tuesday, the container ship faced stormy weather while crossing the Suez Canal heading to the Dutch city of Rotterdam which led to its delinquency, and the entire Suez Canal being blocked.

The vessel is owned by the Japanese company “Choi Kisen”, registered in Panama, and chartered from the Taiwanese “Evergreen” company, and its length is 400 meters, and it carries about 220 thousand tons of cargo.