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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi said yesterday: “The Egyptians have managed to end the rogue ship crisis and return things to their normal course.”
Al-Sisi added, on his Facebook page, “The Egyptians managed yesterday to end the rogue ship crisis in the Suez Canal despite the tremendous technical complexity surrounding this process on all sides. By returning things to their normal course, with Egyptian hands, the entire world will be reassured of the path of its goods and needs that pass through this axial navigation artery.
He said: “The Egyptians have shown today that they always live up to the responsibility, and that the canal they dug with the bodies of their ancestors will continue to bear witness that the Egyptians will go where the Egyptians decide.” He thanked “all sincere Egyptians who contributed technically and practically to ending this crisis.”
Yesterday morning, the president of the Suez Canal Authority, Osama Rabie, announced that the rogue Panamanian container ship, NEVER GIVEN, had successfully floated.
The Egyptian official sent “a message of reassurance to the international maritime community to resume navigation in the canal once the ship is fully floating soon, and ordering it to wait in the lake region for a technical examination.”
Rabie praised “the men of the Suez Canal Authority who have done this great work, and the price of their efforts over the past period, and for carrying out their national duty to the fullest”, affirming “their complete confidence in the culmination of working 100%.
On Tuesday, the ship ran aground at the entrance to the Suez Canal during its transit within the southern convoy, prompting the Canal Authority to suspend navigation last Thursday until the ship floated.
After approximately a week of its default and suspension in the Suez Canal, the tanker “EVER GIVEN” started its engines in preparation for its transport to the Lake District, where it will be examined.
Ten giant locomotives managed to partially float the container ship and its course was changed by 80%.
The head of the Suez Canal Authority said that “pulling maneuvers were started to float the container ship by means of ten giant tugs operating from four different directions.”
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