“We will keep counting, we will take into account all the funds that we used from the first day of the incident, the expenditures on the work of tugs and dredging vessels that worked around the clock, this is a significant amount,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying on the air of the Sada el-Balad TV channel.
According to him, the damage is estimated "at $ 1 billion or so."
Earlier it was reported that the container ship Ever Given will be detained pending the investigation of the incident.
On March 29, navigation in the Suez Canal was resumed.