Expectations of the return of navigation in the Suez Canal in less than 3 days
A former member of the Suez Canal Authority Board of Directors, Wael Kaddour, expected the end of the accumulation of ships at the northern and southern entrances of the Suez Canal within less than 3 days of the return to normal navigation traffic in the canal, after the floatation of the ship Evergiven, which ran aground in the shipping channel and obstructed the crossing since Tuesday the past.
Kaddour said, in exclusive statements to "Sputnik", "The ship, Evergiven, after being fully floated, is scheduled to head to the Lakes region in the north, to examine it and find out the extent of its ability to sail, which would open the canal passage to the ships piled up at the southern and northern entrance. “.
"Once the canal passage is opened for navigation, 43 ships will cross the shipping course from the north, and have already entered the course during the crisis," Kaddour added, pointing out that these ships will have priority crossing.
After that, the traffic in the canal will be divided into two days, one day for the northern convoy (ships coming from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea) and a day for the southern convoy (ships coming from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean), thus ending the congestion that resulted from the crisis, that is, all congestion It ends in less than three days.
Kaddour expressed optimism about the imminent resumption of navigation in the canal, saying, “The hardest part of the crisis has actually ended, as the ship responded to the attempts to float, and only left its position in the middle of the canal corridor to sail and dock in the lakes region, and this is the easiest part, and I expect that the resumption of navigation in the canal will be very soon. “.
This morning, the Suez Canal Authority announced the success of the attempts to float the ship, Evergiven, stranding in the canal lane, using ten tugs that worked in the ship's four directions, and the success rate in adjusting the ship’s course was 80 percent, according to the statement issued by the authority.
It is decided that the maneuvers to float the ship will resume again with the rise of the water level to its maximum height at noon today, allowing the ship’s course to be completely modified to be in the middle of the shipping course.
