Evergreen: We thank the Suez Canal for its efforts to get the delinquent ship back to float
The giant "Evergreen" shipping company, which owns the Evergiven ship, issued a press statement, confirming that it was successfully re-floated inside the Suez Canal at about 15:04 on March 29 local time "21:04 Taipei time", so that the canal would resume its normal work, to leave The ship is positioned with the help of tugs.
The company indicated that the chartered vessel will be transferred to the Bitter Lakes in the Suez Canal to check its seaworthiness, provided that the result of this inspection determines whether the ship can resume its scheduled service, noting that once the examination is completed, decisions will be made regarding the arrangements for the goods on board The ship is currently.
"We are very grateful to the Suez Canal Authority and all parties concerned for their help and support in this difficult and unfortunate situation. We would also like to express our deep appreciation to the crew, who have remained steadfast in their work, the rescue experts and the dredging team for their professionalism and their tireless efforts," Evergreen said in its statement. Over the past six days, towards securing this result ».
She emphasized: “Evergreen will coordinate with the ship's owner to deal with subsequent matters after the ship owner and other interested parties complete the accident investigation reports, and Evergreen is a 20,000 class container vessel, currently chartered by the Evergreen Marine Corp., under a time lease agreement, the vessel has been paid. In the service of the Far East and Europe ».
For his part, Lieutenant General Osama Rabie, head of the Suez Canal Authority, said that the delinquent ship in the canal has been moved to the Bitter Lakes, and its devices will be examined and an investigation will be conducted with them, confirming that the navigation movement in the canal has been running since 6 pm today, pointing to 113 ships crossed from this evening until tomorrow morning.
The head of the Suez Canal Authority indicated that the movement of the ship was done by 100% Egyptian hands, indicating that the jurists will move to find out who is responsible for paying the losses caused by the ship, indicating that the workers are performing their work in the best way, pointing out that the lessons learned from the event indicate that The necessity to develop rescue means because the ships have developed, explaining that the ship is intact and that the containers were also ensured, and two Egyptian guides boarded them in order to ensure the quality of everything.
