Bulk carrier collided with Russian Navy tanker off Suez
https://www.fleetmon.com/maritime-news/2021/33109/bulk-carrier-collided-russian-navy-tanker-suez/
First Ship From Northern Convoy Starts Moving in Suez Canal After Blockage, Reports Say
https://sputniknews.com/world/202103241082437814-first-ship-from-northern-convoy-starts-moving-in-suez-canal-after-blockage-source-says/
The first ship from the northern convoy in the Suez Canal has started moving, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing source and witnesses.
The canal was blocked after Panama-flagged vessel Ever Given, en route from Malaysia to Netherlands stuck sideways, creating a giant traffic jam.
Manager of ship stuck in Suez working to refloat vessel, no pollution seen
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-suezcanal-ship-refloat/manager-of-ship-stuck-in-suez-working-to-refloat-vessel-no-pollution-seen-idUSKBN2BG1LM
Suez Canal Update as Map Shows How Stuck Container Ship Has Blocked Sea Traffic
https://www.newsweek.com/suez-canal-update-container-ship-ever-given-blocking-traffic-map-1578337
The vessel experienced a black out while in transit, according to port agent GAC.
The owner of Ever Given was reported to have told Taiwan's Evergreen Marine Corporation, which is leasing the ship under a time charter, that the vessel "was suspected of being hit by a sudden strong wind, causing the hull to deviate from [the] waterway and accidentally hit the bottom and run aground."
"The company has urged the shipowner to report the cause of the accident and to work out a plan with related units such as the canal administration to assist the ship in getting out of trouble as soon as possible," Evergreen Marine Corporation said in a statement.
Luster Maritime/Higaki Sangyo
Wind from dust storm, confirmed by other ports closing due to storm across Egypt
https://www.reuters.com/article/egypt-ports-idAFL1N2LL0S4
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/82914/Egypt-to-witness-dust-storm-rise-in-temperature-Monday
The new Egyptian capital: Illusion or new beginning?
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/the-new-egyptian-capital-illusion-or-new-beginning-663020
Egypt is racing to prepare a new capital city in the desert east of Cairo before the first civil servants move in this summer and ahead of the official opening of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi’s flagship project.
Tarek El Khouly, a parliamentarian and a member of the Coordination Committee of Parties’ Youth Leaders and Politicians (an unofficial gathering), told The Media Line, “I think the term ‘new republic’ expresses the period in which we are living. I am a supporter of the fact that we are building a new republic and a new country. … We are witnessing the re-establishment of the Egyptian state in various political, economic and social aspects, which came after revolutions, drawing up a new constitution, and drawing new relations between the authorities. So I think the term the president used is well-suited and expresses what we are living now and certainly that we are about the New Republic. Egypt is now turning into an example for the developed world of good governance. I believe that the new country needs to provide a new climate that will bring about new paradigm shifts.”
^Birth of a new country
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