CAIRO: All vessels trapped on the entrance to Egypt’s Suez Canal by the grounding of a large container ship have handed via as of Saturday, the chairman of the waterway’s authority stated.
“All 422 vessels with a mixed tonnage of twenty-two million, which have been queuing because the mishap involving the Ever Given, have handed via the Suez Canal,” Osama Rabie stated in an announcement.
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The Ever Given ran aground on Tuesday final week, paralyzing the essential waterway. The injury to world commerce can run into $1 billion, in response to the canal authority.
The ship was refloated on Monday by a fleet of 15 tugboats. The final 61 ships cleared the canal linking the Pink Sea with the Mediterranean Sea on Saturday.
