The head of the Suez Canal administration, Osama Rabia, said the administration used three ships to tow the emergency tanker SEAVIGOUR, which crossed the waterway on its way from Russia to China. His words are transmitted by the information portal Al-Youm Al-Sabia.
According to the statement of the Head of the Channel Administration, a message was sent to the main cruise control center that there was a malfunction of the engine of the tanker at the 12th kilometer of the channel. Work is currently underway to connect three tugboats to the ship.
Rabia also stated that the ship traffic in the canal from the north will return to normal after the tanker is withdrawn.
It was previously owned by the British insurance market Lloyd’s of London. planned to leave From the insurance of the tanker fleet of the Indian company Gatik Ship Management, which has become the largest oil carrier from Russia since 3 June.
Prior to that, Politico wrote that the European Union (EU) was slipping. to impose sanctionsIt aimed to fight the Russian tanker “shadow fleet” with the help of which they were secretly transporting oil from Russia.