Osama Rabie, head of the Suez Canal Authority announced that the navigation traffic in the canal is regular in both directions, as efforts succeeded in quickly dealing with a technical malfunction in the machinery of the oil tanker "SEAVIGOUR" after three tugboats “successfully towed and moored the ship” at a shipyard where the technical fault will be fixed.
Rabie confirmed, in a statement issued, Sunday, that as soon as a malfunction was reported in the tanker’s machinery, the ship was moored and the locomotives were immediately pushed to begin the work of connecting the locomotives to the ship and its towing from the place where the malfunction occurred, in parallel with The ship's crew's efforts to fix the technical fault.
The length of the tanker, which flies the flag of Malta, is 274 meters, its width is 48 meters, and its tonnage is 82,000 tons.
Rabie affirmed the readiness of the Suez Canal Authority to deal with potential emergencies through an integrated system abounding with navigational competencies, accumulated experience in marine rescue work, and marine units specialized in marine rescue, navigational insurance and pollution control.
It is worth noting that today, the canal witnessed the crossing of 60 ships from both directions, with a total net tonnage of 3.5 million tons.
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