On the Suez Canal in Egypt, where traffic has resumed, more than half of the more than 420 vessels that had to wait due to the stranded container ships will complete the canal by midnight on the 31st. It is expected that the ship's stagnation will disappear and it will return to normal within three days.
On the Suez Canal in Egypt, on the 23rd of this month, a large container ship owned by Shoei Kisen in Ehime Prefecture and operated by a Taiwanese company ran aground and blocked the canal. Reef work has been completed and canal traffic has resumed.
In response to this, the Suez Canal Authority, which manages the canal, is passing 422 vessels that had been forced to wait 24 hours a day, and more than half by midnight on the 31st and 7:00 am Japan time. It is said that it will finish passing about 250 ships.
President Sisi visited Ismailia, where the headquarters of the Suez Canal Authority is located, on the 30th, saying, "We were able to overcome the crisis with minimal loss through six days of effort," said a person involved in the ship's reefing work. I aimed at.
He said, "Through all the vessels that stayed for up to three days, the canal will return to its original state," he said, and said that it would return to normal within three days.
The Suez Canal, which is a key point of maritime transportation connecting Asia and Europe, is an important source of income for Egypt, and the government wants to aim for early normalization by urgently eliminating the stagnation of vessels nationwide. ..