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01/09/2021 · Shipping traffic through Egypt's Suez Canal resumed on Monday after a giant container ship which had been blocking the busy waterway for almost a week was refloated, the canal authority said. www ...

04/07/2021 · Settlement agreed over ship that blocked Suez Canal: Owner's representative. The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has held the giant ship and its crew in a lake between two stretches of the waterway since it was dislodged on March 29, amid a dispute over a demand for compensation by the SCA. 04 Jul, 2021, 09.49 PM IST.

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29/03/2021 · Image caption, Suez Canal Authority chief Osama Rabie said the bloackage was costing the route $14m-$15m. The SCA said it would resume manoeuvres later on Monday high tide, "allowing for the full...

24/03/2021 · Egypt's Suez Canal blocked by huge container ship. A giant container ship the length of four football pitches has become wedged across Egypt's Suez Canal, blocking one of the world's busiest trade...

29/03/2021 · “The Suez Canal is not at fault,” General Rabie told reporters at a news conference in Ismailia, a city at the 120-mile-long canal’s halfway point. “We have been harmed by the incident.”

22/09/2021 · The head of the Suez Canal Authority has said that it plans to expand and deepen the stretch of the canal where the container ship Ever Given became stuck for six days in March.

In March 2021, the Suez Canal was blocked for six days after the grounding of Ever Given, a 20,000 TEU container ship. The 400-metre-long (1,300 ft) vessel was buffeted by strong winds on the morning of 23 March, and ended up wedged across the waterway with its bow and stern stuck in the canal banks, blocking all traffic until it could be freed. ...