The crisis of the giant container ship Ever Given, which was seized by the Egyptian authorities after the end of last March, disrupted navigation in the canal after it ran aground, ended today.
According to Arab Net, data from the vesselfinder ship tracking website showed that the ship is on its way to the Egyptian city of Port Said on the Mediterranean, where it is expected to complete its journey to Rotterdam. in the Netherlands.
This came after the Suez Canal Authority and the ship's owners announced that an agreement had been reached to release her, more than 3 months after she was detained by the authority's authorities for causing disruption to navigation in the canal.
Sources have recently revealed to Al-Arabiya that Egypt has signed a preliminary agreement with the company that owns the Ever Given ship, according to which it will pay $540 million in compensation to Egypt.
The economic court in Ismailia, eastern Egypt, officially approved, on Tuesday, the request submitted by the Suez Canal Authority, to lift the precautionary seizure of the stranded Panamanian container ship, and its departure to a port Rotterdam, Netherlands, today, Wednesday.
For its part, the Suez Canal Authority completed, yesterday, the procedures for leaving the ship from the Bitter Lakes region in the navigational course of the canal, in preparation for resuming its cruise to the port of Rotterdam.
The ship, which is considered one of the largest container ships in the world, ran aground in the Suez Canal on March 23 and disrupted maritime traffic for 6 days, which led to economic losses. large, before the Egyptian authorities succeeded in floating it.
The Canal Authority has submitted a lawsuit to the Ismailia Economic Court to consider a financial compensation claim amounting to $916 million and the precautionary seizure of the ship pending payment of compensation.
