The blockage of Egypt's Suez canal by a giant container ship is causing a "traffic jam" in the Red Sea, according to a merchant seaman on a nearby ship. Joe Reynolds, chief engineer of the Maersk ...

The giant ship is causing a traffic jam in one of the world's busiest waterways A giant container ship the length of four football pitches has become wedged across Egypt's Suez Canal, blocking one ...

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The UN official in charge of the International Maritime Organisation is planning to strengthen the agency in Egypt in ...

About 15% of world shipping traffic transits the Suez Canal, which is an important source of foreign currency revenue for Egypt. The stoppage was costing the canal up to $15 million a day.

A container ship which was hit by strong wind and ran aground is pictured in Suez ... the canal in the hope the blockage could be cleared, said it had temporarily suspended all traffic on Thursday.

Rescue efforts to unlock the Panama-flagged mega-ship Ever Given from the Suez ... Canal finally proved successful early Monday, Egyptian authorities confirmed. But it was too soon to know when ...

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The BW Lesmes was successfully re-floated at 3:30am on Wednesday and was sent for further inspection at Suez, at the canal’s southern terminus, BW Group said in a statement reported by Reuters.

Shipping was on the move again late on Monday in Egypt’s Suez Canal after tugs refloated a ... Rabie said that within four days, traffic would return to normal. “We’ll work day and night ...