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

Another tanker briefly blocks Egypt's Suez canal | Africanews (Africanews English)

The Affinity V "ran aground in the Suez Canal at 19:15" (17:15 GMT)", a security source told AFP, adding that maritime traffic had been restored after "a short ...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi approved a project in May to widen and deepen the southern portion of the canal where the Ever Given had gotten stuck. The incident was caused by "technical damage to the rudder resulting in a loss of control of the ship", according to the Suez Canal Authority, which said the 64,000-ton tanker had been "successfully refloated". According to the website Vessel Finder, the 250-meter-long, Singaporean-flagged tanker is headed for the Saudi port of Yanbu.

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)

Oil tanker refloated after breakdown in Egypt's Suez Canal | MEO (Middle East Online)

CAIRO - Tug boats refloated an oil tanker that was briefly stranded in Egypt's Suez Canal late on Wednesday due to a technical fault with its rudder, ...

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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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Suez Canal blocked again as Saudi Arabia-bound crude oil tanker ... (WION)

The Suez Canal was once again in the news on Wednesday as a 250-metre-long oil tanker called 'Affinity V' got stuck in the narrow southern section.

At around 17:00 UTC today (2022-08-31), the Aframax tanker AFFINITY V (9645401) seemed to have lost control in the Suez Canal while heading southbound. Affinity V, a crude oil tanker bound for Saudi Arabia from Portugal, was stuck for around 4-5 hours before it was finally able to move forward. Affinity V, which was bound for Saudi Arabia from Portugal, was stuck for around 4-5 hours before it was finally able to move forward.

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/)

Tanker refloated after briefly blocking Suez Canal (Offshore Energy)

The Suez Canal was blocked for several hours after an oil tanker got stranded in the single-lane stretch of the canal.

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Suez Canal Authority re-floats stranded ship in Suez Canal - Egypt ... (Egypt Independent)

The Suez Canal Authority issued a statement after re-floating a stranded huge ship in the canal's shipping lane on Wednesday evening.

Thirty-two ships crossed coming from the north direction with a total net tonnage of two million tons, while 25 ships crossed the canal coming from the south direction, with a total net tonnage of 1.4 million tons. The head of the Suez Canal Authority, Osama Rabie, said that the navigation movement in the canal continued regularly, as the canal witnessed the crossing of 57 ships from both directions, with a net tonnage of 3.4 million tons. Rabie stressed in the statement that navigation went regular in the canal at normal rates, adding that the authority possessed the necessary rescue expertise and technical abilities to address potential emergencies.

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