On April 3 2011 Suez canal traffic was blocked for 3 hours after boxship ZIM Shekou ran aground due to engine failure. Vessel ran aground at 43 km mark, with no damages reported. 3 hours later vessel was refloated and secured to a buoy with the help of Suez Canal Authority (SCA) technical team. After that, traffic has resumed without problems.
Tarek Hassanein, head of the press and media Suez Canal Authority, said today, that the vessel has succeeded in re-navigation of the channel after the flotation of the ship flying the flag of Liberia zim shekou and of the lines of ZIM Israel, which has been disrupted at kilometer 43 the numbering of the channel due to malfunction in the engines, and after 3 hours of groundings view channel.
Hassanein said that he issued instructions from Admiral Ahmed Ali Fadel, Chairman of the Commission for all departments and have already been instructed bond of ships in the waterway, especially that the ship was at the forefront of a convoy south, which includes 31 vessels today and ran aground at 12 and 40 minutes this afternoon.
He said that the accident was not caused by pollution or any losses, pointing to the body secures the locomotives crossing under difficult weather conditions due to wind and rainfall.
This commended the sources Maritime Authority and the Department of movements led by Ahmed Almnakhly Director of Administration and success in the floating carrier, which was primarily have collided in the West Bank of the Suez Canal, and explained Hassanein to navigation walk regularly now in the channel and that the Commission made a great effort in a record time for re-shipping.
