After more than 3 months, the ship Ever Given leaves the Suez Canal

On Wednesday, July 7, after more than three months of waiting, the container ship Ever Given was released by the Egyptian port authorities.

The 400-meter, 200,000-ton ship began moving north towards the Mediterranean Sea. The release of Ever Given to return to sailing is due to an agreement announced on July 4 between the Suez Canal Authority and the Japanese company Shoei Kisen Kaisha, owner of the ship.

The vessel had been impounded since the end of March after running aground in the Suez Canal and blocking navigation on one of the world’s busiest sea routes for almost a week.

“I announce to the world that we have reached an agreement,” said the head of the Suez Canal Authority, Osama Rabie, at a ceremony with the flags of Egypt and Japan and broadcast on state TV in the African country.

Initially, the Egyptian government had demanded an indemnity of US$ 916 million but later reduced the request to US$ 550 million, the equivalent today of around R$ 2.8 billion. The final figures were not disclosed, but Rabie said the agreement also provides for the sending of a 75-ton tug to Egypt and compensation to the family of a worker killed in the operations to dislodge the vessel.

The Ever Given was stranded in the Suez Canal between March 23 and 29, causing a bottleneck of 422 ships. Traffic on the line was only normalized five days after the removal of the container ship. The ship now sails towards the Mediterranean Sea, carrying a load of approximately 18,300 containers.

Source: UOL

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