The director of Suez Canal authority, Osama Rabie, said that 5 tugboats were used in the operation that the 252 meter ship was run aground. The TakerTrackers data monitoring service was used by the operator to follow the navigation flow of the waterway.
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This Thursday morning (1st), tracking images showed that the vessel it had passed the Suez Canal and was in the Gulf of Suez. (Reuters)
George Safwat, spokesman for the canal authority, said the ship 'Aframax Affinity V' was part of a convoy heading south towards the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia.
Commercial road
The Suez Canal is a waterway that connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. It was built more than 150 years ago by man, and today it is responsible for moving a large part of the world's supply chains.
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The artificial road separates the African continent from the Sinai Peninsula and represents a fundamental bridge for the transport of oil, natural gas and other cargo. The Affinity V incident was not the first to block the waterway.
previous incident
Hit by a sandstorm, the Ever Given, a Panama-flagged container ship, ran aground on the bank of a section of the Suez Canal in March 2021. Watch an animation that simulates the moment this freighter gets stuck on the road.
The grounding lasted 6 days and impacted global trade. After interrupting the flow of 425 ships, the SCA announced that it has plans to expand the canal and create an extension to a section of the waterway that allows ships to pass in both directions.
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(with Estadão Content)
