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29 Mar 2021 / Suez Canal, Egypt
Work to refloat the grounded container vessel blocking the Suez Canal restarted at about 0330 hours local time early today (29 March). By 0450 hours, about 15 tugs involved in the operation had managed to almost refloat the ship.
The ship’s aft was completely freed, whilst the bow was nearly free, and tugs were continuing to push and pull to move the bow. Work was also still continuing to refloat the bow side of the vessel.
UPDATE – 11:00 HOURS LOCAL TIME:
The SCA Chairman has just confirmed that the vessel has been partially refloated (80%) in response to tugs pulling and pushing it. The vessel is currently connected to SCA tugs from bow and aft, and is 102 metres from the Canal bank, compared to just 4 metres previously.
The operation to get the vessel back into the middle of the Canal will continue when high tide is at its 2-metre maximum, at about 11:30 hours local time.
Navigation will be restored once vessel is fully refloated and towed to Great Bitter Lakes for technical inspection.
GAC is not associated with the grounded vessel. We are sharing Suez Canal Authority (SCA) information through our daily Hot Port News bulletin as it becomes available. We are not in a position to elaborate or comment further. For further details, we suggest you approach the Suez Canal Authority or the vessel owner directly.