Suez Canal

2022 - 9 - 1

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Another ship got stuck in the Suez Canal, blocking traffic for a few ... (Interesting Engineering)

The Suez Canal was briefly blocked again after a tanker, Affinity V, ran aground very close to where Ever Given was stuck for nearly a week last year.

Having lost its ability to steer itself, the tanker is now relying on tugboats to reach a port, ship monitoring service, So, the salvaging team at SCA has lesser work to go to get the tanker afloat again. The SCA's salvage units and tugboats then sprung into action and coordinated efforts with traffic control at port Tawfiq to get the tanker afloat again. However, the works are expected to be completed only by 2023, so the news of another ship running aground did have the authorities on tenterhooks for a while. Affinity V is an 820 feet (250 m) long and is 147 feet (45 m) wide oil tanker. It took authorities six days to get the giant ship afloat again, but the incident had stalled marine cargo traffic on the

Is the Suez Canal blocked? Did a ship get stuck in Egypt waterway ... (NationalWorld)

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On this occasion tugboats arrived at the scene and were able to refloat the ship. This would also lead to increased costs. [The Suez Canal](/news/world/suez-canal-crisis-ever-given-ship-blockage-explored-in-new-bbc-documentary-why-ships-crash-when-is-it-on-tv-3177073) was blocked as a tanker known as the Affinity V became stuck in the [southern section of the canal near Egypt.](/news/world/suez-canal-backlog-caused-by-ever-given-blockage-could-take-days-to-clear-as-ship-heads-to-great-bitter-lake-3182797)

Tanker grounding has negligible impact on Suez Canal traffic (Lloyd's List)

Five tugs came to the aid of crude oil tanker Affinity V after it ran aground across the channel. It was successfully re-floated after blocking the Suez ...

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Vessel runs aground in Suez Canal, briefly blocking the vital waterway (The Times of Israel)

Tugboats deployed to refloat oil tanker that became wedged in a single-lane stretch; incident comes a year after a shipping vessel blocked the canal for 6 ...

[Learn more](https://www.timesofisrael.com/why-we-publish-the-times-of-israel-in-arabic-and-persian?utm_campaign=arabic&utm_source=website&utm_medium=article_end&utm_content=1964F6) [Learn more](https://www.timesofisrael.com/why-we-publish-the-times-of-israel-in-arabic-and-persian?utm_campaign=arabic&utm_source=website&utm_medium=article_end&utm_content=1964F6) [Already a member? The vessel was part of a convoy heading to the Red Sea. And a [Persian version](https://fa.timesofisrael.com/) for Iranian readers? He told a government-affiliated Extra News satellite television the authority that operates the canal deployed tugboats and managed to refloat the vessel. local time, and was refloated some five hours later, he said. The ship was built in 2016 with a length of 252 meters (827 feet) and a width of 45 meters (148 feet).

Vessel runs aground, briefly blocking Suez Canal (Daily Sabah)

An oil tanker ran aground Wednesday in Egypt's Suez Canal, briefly blocking traffic in the global waterway before it was freed, the canal's authority...

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Tanker blocks Suez Canal, but not for long (Marine Log)

Admiral Ossama Rabiee, the chairman of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), announced today that navigation through the canal was again running smoothly, following ...

[Ever Given ](https://www.marinelog.com/?s=%22Ever+Given%22)all over again, but thankfully it wasn’t. Once the incident took place, a crisis management team was immediately put together and five tugboats were been mobilized, the largest being the SCA tugboat Ezzat Adel with a bollard pull capacity of 160 tons. [Nick Blenkey](https://www.marinelog.com/author/nick-blenkey/)