2023-08-23 13:40:00
Ismailia – Sabry Ghanem Wednesday, August 23, 2023 04:40 PM announced Suez Canal Authority The regularity of the navigation movement within the canal, and that the navigation movement proceeds normally from the northern directions in Port Said and the southern direction in Suez.
Lieutenant General Osama Rabie, head of the Suez Canal Authority, stated that the authority’s marine rescue tugboats succeeded in dealing immediately with navigation emergencies and technical malfunctions that two tankers were exposed to during their crossing of the canal within the northern convoy in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
The head of the authority explained that a slight friction occurred between the liquefied natural gas tanker “BW LESMES” and the oil tanker following it “BURRI” during the sudden stop of the tanker “BW LESMES” in the navigational channel in the 144-kilometer numbering channel following it was exposed to a technical failure in the steering and machinery, which made it lose the ability to steer. , in parallel with the intensity of the current that pushed the BURRI tanker towards friction with the idle tanker.
Admiral Rabie confirmed that the Authority’s locomotives succeeded in dealing with the emergency navigational situation by towing the tanker “BURRI” and tying it in parallel with the work of connecting the wires of four other locomotives to the idle tanker “BW LESMES”, and it was towed by the rescue tug “Ezzat Adel” with a pull force of 160 tons, and the accompanying tugboats 2″, “Swiss 1” and “Swiss 2”, referring in this regard to the completion of the work of towing the tanker “BW LESMES” outside the navigational course of the canal.
The head of the authority indicated that the initial inspection indicated that there were no serious damages or any pollution incidents in the vicinity of the two tankers, but the crew of the tanker “BURRI” reported a sudden malfunction in the steering, which requires the use of the authority’s locomotives to tow it until the malfunction is repaired, as the two locomotives were pushed into Heliopolis. A companion 3 to diameter.
The BW LESMES tanker flying the Singapore flag is 295 meters long, 46 meters wide, and its tonnage is 121,000 tons, while the BURRI tanker is regarding 250 meters long, 44 meters wide, and its tonnage is 67,000 tons.
Lieutenant General Osama Rabie sent a message of reassurance regarding the return of regular navigation in the canal from both directions within hours, as the ships of the northern convoy are scheduled to resume their crossing as soon as the BURRI tanker is towed out of the navigational stream.
Admiral Rabie concluded his statement by stressing the readiness of the Suez Canal Authority to deal professionally with potential emergencies through an integrated system full of navigational competencies and accumulated experience in marine rescue work and marine units specialized in marine rescue work, navigational insurance and pollution control.
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