The return of traffic to the Suez Canal after bad weather disrupted it

ArabiaWeather - hung huge container Iver Giffen ship (Ever Given) near the southern tip of the Suez Canal on Tuesday, having veered off course due to weather and wind, and several attempts have failed to re - float, causing traffic congestion and massive accumulation of ships at the entrance the channel.

Reports indicated that the ship suffered from a loss of energy, but the ship’s operator explained that the container vessel had deviated by mistake after being struck by a strong gust of wind, with a speed of 50 km / hour, as the weather forecasts issued by ArabiaWeather stated that the area would be affected by a sandstorm. And strong winds on Tuesday , and the navigational course of the Suez Canal continues to be affected by the blowing of westerly to northwest winds in conjunction with the passage of a pentagonal depression over the country, which leads to a decrease in the horizontal visibility.

And what happened yesterday was that with the intensification of the westerly and northwestern winds blowing perpendicular to the direction of navigation traffic in the Suez Canal, this led to the diversion of the Evergiven ship from its course and disruption of maritime navigation in the Red and Mediterranean Bahrain, but there were no reports of injuries or pollution in the channel.

Here, the importance of weather forecasts appears, which helps in taking measures that contribute to the regularity of marine traffic, maintaining safety and avoiding heavy losses.

Details of what happened with the ship

The 220,000-ton container ship Ever Given , 400 meters long and 59 meters wide, is one of the new mega-class ( ULCS ) new ships, some of which were too large for the Panama Canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

The Taiwanese ship Evergiven, coming from China towards Rotterdam, was carrying hundreds of containers, but it ran aground across the waterway in the Suez Canal and settled at an angle, and the Egyptian authorities sent locomotives to try to free it, and a mechanical driller to dig the ground in an attempt to free the stranded ship.