Foreign media: One oil tanker resumes after the Suez Canal is shallowed in a short hour, and the canal resumes navigation

Comprehensive American CNN (CNN) and the British "Guardian" reported that the Suez Canal Administration (SCA) said that on the evening of August 31, local time, a tanker was briefly stranded in the Suez Canal due to a technical failure in the rudder, and then then Reopen with the help of a trailer.

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Two shipping sources told CNN that the "Affinity" oil tanker, about 250 meters long and 45 meters wide, blocked the southern section of the Suez Canal, causing the channel to suspend the channel that night. However, sources of the Canal Administration said that shortly after midnight, the canal has resumed navigation.

According to the "Guardian", this oil tanker hangs the Singaporean flag. The sailing destination is Saudi Arabia, but it is stranded in the southern section of the southern section of the Suez Canal. The newspaper also pointed out that the tanker was shallowly reminiscent of the "Changci" of the giant cargo ship owned by the Taiwan Evergreen Group, which was also stranded in the Suez Canal last March last year.

On March 27, 2021 local time, ships lined up in the Suez Canal in Egypt and waited for pass. Source: Visual China

The Suez Canal Administration's statement stated that this time the trailer resumed the tanker to the rotation, and the channel was restored to normal traffic. A spokesman for the Authority said that the tanker was stranded around 7:15 pm on August 31 local time, and it resumed again 5 hours later. The reason for stranding was that there was a problem with the steering system of the tanker. The tanker departed from Portugal and went to the Red Sea port of Saudi Arabia.

The Suez Canal is located in the junction of Europe, Asia, and Africa, connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. The Canal income is one of the main sources of Egyptian national fiscal revenue and foreign exchange reserves, and about 12%of the world's trade is carried out through this waterway. Data show that on September 29, 2021, the Suez Canal reached the highest number of vessels in a single day, and a total of 87 ships passed the canal on the day. (Edit: HHJ)

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