El jefe del Canal de Suez dijo que espera que el tráfico de embarcaciones a través de la vía fluvial de Medio Oriente regrese gradualmente a la normalidad a fines de marzo y se recupere completamente a mediados de este año. El jefe de la Autoridad del Canal de Suez, Osama Rabie, agregó que el […]
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The head of the Suez Canal said he expects vessel traffic through the Middle East waterway to gradually return to normal by late March and fully recover by the middle of this year.
Suez Canal Authority chief Osama Rabie added the forecast is dependent on the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas holding, Bloomberg reported.
But Hamas on Monday said it won’t follow through with further hostage exchanges, accusing Israel of violating the ceasefire.
Israel this past week made similar accusations...
Traffic through Egypt’s Suez Canal has nearly come to a standstill over the past year. However, the Suez Canal Authority recently completed a successful test of a new expansion.
The project adds a ten-kilometer stretch of two-way traffic at the canal’s southern end, significantly enhancing its capabilities, according to DynaLiners.
Once vessel owners and operators resume routing their ships through the Suez Canal, this upgrade will enable the vital global trade artery to accommodate an additional...
https://container-news.com/suez-canal-completes-expansion-to-enhance-traffic-flow/
CAIRO, Dec 28 (Reuters) – Egypt said on Saturday it had successfully tested a new 10 km channel near the southern end of the Suez Canal, even as its revenue from the…
https://gcaptain.com/egypt-completes-trial-run-of-new-suez-canal-channel-extension/
CAIRO, March 4 (Reuters) – Egypt is studying further expansions of the Suez Canal to extend and complete a second channel of the waterway, the canal’s head said on Monday, a move…
https://gcaptain.com/suez-canal-head-says-egypt-studying-further-expansion-of-waterway/
Chairman and managing director of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), Admiral Osama Mounier Mohamed Rabie said that dollar revenues from the canal are down 40% from the beginning of the year compared to 2023, while vessel traffic has declined by 30% in the same period.
The number of ships that have passed through the Suez Canal dropped to 544 so far this year, from 777 in the equivalent period of 2023, according to Rabie.
As the Suez Canal is crucial for the Egyptian economy, accounting for 2% of the...
https://container-news.com/drop-in-suez-canal-revenues-could-affect-egyptian-economy/
Ahead of a widely expected announcement from U. S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin the Norwegian Government said today that the U.S. has taken the initiative to strengthen international efforts to secure civilian shipping in the Red Sea through an operation called Prosperity Guardian.
The operation is thought to center on conveying merchant ships with naval escorts. The move comes as Houthi attacks on merchant shipping continue, with reports that this morning two more ships had been struck....
Egypt’s South Red Sea Shipyard has awarded Vancouver, B.C., based Robert Allan Ltd. a contract for the design of ten ) RAstar 3200-W ASD tugs to be built for the Suez Canal Authority. These new vessels build on the success of the RAstar 3200-W seies of azimuthing stern drive tugs, 20 of which are already in service worldwide.
On completion of this contract, the Suez Canal Authority will own and operate over 20 Robert Allan Ltd. designed tugs, all of which are high-performance ASD tugs. These new...
A Singapore-flagged LNG carrier BW Lesmes collided with an oil product tanker Burri while […]
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Two tankers collided on the Suez Canal last night (22 August) blocking the canal traffic for a few hours.
The Suez Canal Authority deployed tugboats to move the two ships and the movement along the canal resumed.
The vessels involved in the accident were Burri, a Cayman island tanker, and the BW Lesmes, a Singapore-flagged LNG tanker, according to MarineTraffic.
The Suez Canal Authority mentioned that one of the tankers had broken down, but did not identify which one.
Watch the playback of the two...
https://container-news.com/tankers-collide-in-suez-canal-awakening-memories-of-ever-given-nightmare/