An Egyptian court postponed an issue on the Ever Geven container ship, which closed the Suez Canal to provide more time to negotiate over the amount of compensation.
According to Arab Net, the Ismaili court postponed the session to 20 June after requests from lawyers representing the Suez Canal and the Email Jeffin, which is 400 meters.
This comes after the Commission has reduced its demand from $ 916 million, to $ 550 million, after closing the waterway for 6 days in March, causing shipping markets disruption, and reduced the reduction by mistake in estimating the shipments on board. The insurance companies on the ship said the demand is still very high.
For his part, the lawyer of the Suez Canal, Nabil Zidane, said in the court there are efforts to reach a settlement and because they are good clients, we ask the court to postpone negotiations and study the presentation of the owners.
In turn, the company's owner's lawyer told the ship, Ahmed Abu Shanab: negotiations are underway and there are flexibility from both sides.
Since Sunday's session, Zidane said the Suez Canal Authority would repay its claim, without going into details of what it means to the new case or figure.
The Ever Given owner previously offered 150 million dollars, according to the power, which says this does not cover the losses of transit fees and damage to the waterway and equipment and employment costs.
Shui Kisen Kaisha, Ever Geven, has been released on March 29, and has been moved to the late lakes area, and is almost halfway along the channel, and is currently under reservation.
In May, Egypt began drilling work to expand the southern end of the channel in the region, which was suspended by the GV.
