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 ...

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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.

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.

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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CAIRO, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- The Suez ... traffic as stability improves in the Red Sea region. This news comes after Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi revealed on Thursday that Suez Canal ...

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.