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After news of the traffic jams in the Suez Canal circulated, video clips were circulated in the last hours showing a huge ship in the middle of the canal preventing movement.
JAC Shipping Services announced that a container ship bound for Rotterdam ran aground in the middle of the canal, preventing the passage of other ships on one of the most important maritime traffic routes in the world, as confirmed by navigation data from Refinitiv Eikon.
JAC also reported on its website that the 200,000-ton ship Evergiven was heading from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean when it ran aground at around 7:40 am Tuesday (05:40 GMT) after it encountered a power outage.
15 ships were detained
In addition, he added, 15 other ships that were behind the rogue ship in the northbound convoy were forced to dock until the lane was cleared. The company said a convoy heading south was also surrounded.
It is noteworthy that around 19,000 ships, with a net tonnage of 1.17 billion tons, crossed that important Suez Canal in 2020 with an average of 51.5 ships per day, according to the Suez Canal Authority.
About 12 percent of the volume of world trade passes through the canal, which is a major source of foreign exchange in Egypt.
