On Wednesday night, Egyptian media reported that an oil tanker "delinquently" in the Suez Canal in the northeast of the country, which led to the disruption of navigation near the southern entrance to the sea lane.
The Suez Canal Authority said it "succeeded" in floating the oil tanker, which closed the waterway shortly after it ran aground.
The Egyptian television also regularly reported the navigation movement in the canal after the ship floated aground for a short period.
The local newspaper Al-Shorouk (private) had reported on its website that "an oil tanker carrying the Singapore flag, 252 meters long, ran aground on Wednesday evening in the Suez Canal."
"The movement in the navigation course has been disrupted, as the movement of ships between the Bitter Lakes and the Gulf of Suez has completely stopped" at the southern entrance to the canal, she added.
And she continued, "The Suez Canal Authority has begun to make unremitting efforts to float the tanker and end the current state of scrambling to restore normal flow in the stream."
And the website Cairo 24, which is close to the authorities, quoted unnamed sources as saying that the ship "ran aground in the Suez Canal, as happened with the Panamanian ship "Ever Given", noting that there are "ships that are disabled and the navigation movement in the canal has stopped."
It is noteworthy that the ship "Ever Given", which was flying the flag of Panama and leased by the Taiwanese company "Evergreen", had ran aground in the southern section of the Suez Canal on March 23, 2021, which led to its complete closure and disruption of navigation in the canal for six days.
The ship left the Suez Canal on July 7, 2021, after a financial settlement of $540 million, as a result of its delinquency and disruption of the navigational course.