Two oil tankers collided in the Suez Canal on Tuesday evening. The tankers have been towed away and traffic is expected to be restored within hours.
Two oil tankers collided in the Suez Canal on Tuesday evening. The ‘light contact’ came after the BW Lesmes liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker suddenly stopped due to a technical malfunction. This coincided with a strong current pushing the oil tanker Burri towards it, channel manager Osama Rabie said.
BW LNG AS Group, operator of the natural gas tanker, said in a statement that the ship ran aground around 9:35 p.m. (8:35 p.m. EST) while sailing south through the Suez Canal.
Towing ships in the Suez Canal
Osama Rabie announced that tugs had been sent to transport both ships. The Singapore BW Lesmes was safely towed away. By midnight local time, the Cayman-flagged Burri was already on its way to the south side of the channel. Bee. At 15:30 local time, BW Lesmes was secured and will undergo further inspections at the Suez anchorage. TMS Tankers, the operators of the Burri tanker, did not comment on the matter.
Rabie said that according to preliminary findings, there was no major damage or contamination of the area as a result of the collision. The channel should be available for use again within hours.
The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea and is one of the most important waterways in the world. It is the easiest way to transport goods from Europe to Asia. Each of the blockades is a potential loss to international trade.
Blockade of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles
The collision in the Suez Canal coincided with the suspension of traffic in another important strait: the Bosphorus, which connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara. On Wednesday morning, one of the ships passing through the strait suffered an engine failure. The Liberian-flagged tanker Guanyin stopped at the northern entrance to the strait. Two tugs have been sent to the site.
Due to the use of seawater to extinguish forest fires in northwestern Turkey, traffic has been temporarily halted through the Strait of the Dardanelles, which connects the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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