The management of the Suez Canal is going to consider the question of expanding the channel so that the situation with the stuck vessel is no longer repeated. This was announced by the head of the department of Usama Rabia, his words leads al Arabiya TV channel.
Representatives of the Office insist that the captain of the ship happened in what the captain of the ship was to blame: the ship made the wrong maneuver, rejected from the course and in the end it turned out to be on the mel. Weather conditions were unfavorable: dust storm and strong wind. However, more than a dozen ships to Ever Given were still able to go through the channel.
Ever Given container ship, which manages the Taiwan Evergreen Group, blocked the Suez Canal on March 23, remove it from Meli only on March 29. During this time, a traffic jam from several hundred ships was formed. The main version of what happened is the deviation of the vessel from the course due to a strong wind, but the human factor is not excluded.
Before the end of the investigation, EVER Given will not be released from the Suez Canal. How much time the proceedings will be held. It is not yet known, the crew of the vessel interrogated on March 31. While the container ship is in one of the lakes of the channel.
According to the adviser to the President of Egypt on the development of the ports and the channel of Admiral Mojab Mamysh, the owner of the vessel agrees to pay compensation for blocking the channel, so Cairo will not be submitted to the court. As for compensation for simple vessels, which several days could not overcome the Suez Canal, then they will pay insurance companies.
Usama Rabia in turn said that Egypt intends to demand more than a billion dollars in compensation for a rescue operation. “We request a decent amount. We saved the ship without any serious damage or loss,” he said, but did not specify who should pay compensation. To remove the Ever Given from the Meli, several hundred people were required, from under the bottom of the container carriage got about 30 thousand cubic meters of sand.