Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority: We pushed four tugboats to deal with the delinquency of the MSC ISTANBUL container ship
The Suez Canal Authority announced that a container ship ran aground while crossing the canal and began attempts to float it.
Lieutenant General Osama Rabie, head of the Suez Canal Authority, announced that the authority pushed four tugboats to deal with the delinquency of the container ship MSC ISTANBUL, during its transit of the canal as part of the southern convoy on its journey coming from Malaysia and heading to Portugal, stressing that the navigation movement in the canal was not affected by this emergency situation and that all ships crossed. Coming from the north direction as usual.
The head of the authority stated that as soon as the main navigation control center received notification of the ship’s delinquency in the kilometer 78 channel numbering, four tugboats were immediately pushed to float the ship, which included both the tug Port Said with a tensile strength of 95 tons, and the tugboats Assistant 1 and Assistant 2 and the tug Assistant 5, and it is scheduled to join The tugboat Baraka 1 to participate in the flotation works.
Rabih confirmed the regularity of the navigation traffic coming from the south direction by diverting the transit of ships from the western channel to the eastern channel, indicating that the authority possesses the rescue expertise and the necessary navigational and technical insurance capabilities to deal professionally with potential emergencies.