Tugboats blare their horns to celebrate the float of the rogue ship in the Suez Canal (video)

The tugs in the Suez Canal sounded their horns after the rogue ship responded to tension and towing maneuvers, and the ship’s float was 80% successful.

Lieutenant General Osama Rabie, president of the Suez Canal Authority, announced on Monday that the Panamanian container ship EVER GIVEN has floated successfully after the ship’s response to tensioning and towing maneuvers, as the ship’s heading was changed. significantly by 80% and the stern of the ship was 102 meters away from the shore instead of 4 meters.

The maneuvers are scheduled to resume as the water level rises to its maximum height in the period from 11:30 am to reach 2 meters, which will allow the ship’s heading to be completely modified by half of the route.

Lieutenant General Rabie sent a message of reassurance to the international maritime community to resume navigation in the canal once the ship is fully floating soon and is instructed to wait in the Lake District for its technical examination.

The chairman of the authority commended the heroic men of the Suez Canal Authority who carried out this great work, appreciating their efforts over the past period and for fulfilling their national duty to the fullest, with full confidence in the completion of the work by 100%.

The global maritime traffic monitoring site “VesselFinder” showed the response of the ship, Ever Given, stranded in the Suez Canal to the pulling maneuvers.

For the first time since its delinquency last Tuesday, the site showed that the ship was in a vertical position on the sailing course, which augurs the success of the pulling maneuvers in which 10 locomotives participated.

Lieutenant General Osama Rabie, head of the Suez Canal Authority, announced early Monday morning the start of towing maneuvers to float the criminal Panamanian container ship by 10 giant tugs operating from four different directions.

The head of the authority explained that the distribution of the locomotives during tension maneuvers includes pulling the bow of the ship towards the north by means of both the “Baraka” and the “Izzat Adel” locomotive with a force of 160 tons each.

While 4 tugs push the stern of the ship to the south, the two new tugs include “Abdel Hamid Youssef” and “Mustafa Mahmoud” with a tension of 70 tons each, and the two tugs Port Said 1 and Port Said 2.

Two locomotives are also working to tension the ship’s stern to the south, led by the Dutch APL GUARD with a pulling force of 285 tonnes, and the Maradev locomotive.

It is reported that the Dutch locomotive APL GUARD arrived on Sunday evening, as part of the Dutch SMIT team, to participate in the efforts to float the rogue Panamanian container ship.