Suez Canal: end of the traffic jam of waiting ships
Traffic resumed on the Suez Canal.
In this photo taken on April 2, 2021, three U.S. Navy warships are seen while in transit through the Suez Canal.
VIA REUTERS - Sophie A. Pinkham
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The congestion of ships waiting north and south of the Suez Canal since March 23 following the grounding of a giant container ship is over, General Oussama Rabie, chairman of the Suez Canal Authority.
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With our correspondent in Cairo,
Alexandre Buccianti
Record broken for the Suez Canal.
Since the
refloating of the
container ship
Ever Given
and the
resumption of navigation
on March 30, 422 ships carrying 26 million tonnes of cargo will have crossed the waterway in both directions in five days.
This is good news for international trade, more than 10% of which passes through the Suez Canal.
Now is the time for accounts.
Egypt directly lost nearly a hundred million euros in tolls.
But even more serious, losses running into hundreds of millions of euros have been caused by delays in the delivery of goods and production equipment to an increasingly just-in-time world.
Who will foot the bill?
The investigation has just started and the
Ever Given
is practically placed in custody in Amer Lake, in the center of the Suez Canal.
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To read also: Suez Canal: a "human error" could be at the origin of the grounding
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