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In a revenge for the fight that made global headlines earlier this year, the 400-meter, 220,000-ton container ship that came to rest in the Suez Canal for nearly a week, disrupting trade globally, try again.
Several weeks after finally docking at the British port of Felixstowe – after months of negotiation over who should bear the costs of blocking the seaway for six days in March – the ship returned to Port Said, Egypt on Thursday evening .
The Japanese ship, flying the Panamanian flag, began its crossing of the canal on Friday, accompanied by two tugs, state newspaper Al-Ahram reported. Live tracking of the vessels showed that the vessel was successfully negotiating the first stages of the canal towards the Red Sea.
The operation in March to free the ship from the canal caused a delay that delayed the voyages of hundreds of ships, forcing some to take a much longer route around the southern tip of Africa.
A dispute over compensation resulted in the vessel being detained by Egyptian authorities for months, with its owner, Shoei Kisen Kaisha, arguing that the canal authority was at fault for allowing the Ever Given to enter despite the bad time, and the canal authority demanding nearly a billion dollars to cover what it claimed to be its losses.
The Ever Given was released in July after the two sides reached an undisclosed deal, with the owner stating: “Our business… will continue to be a regular and loyal customer of the Suez Canal.”
This appears to be the case as the ship crosses the channel with which it will be forever associated with infamy, despite the fact, according to Al-Ahram, that it has successfully crossed the Suez Canal 22 times since its manufacture in 2018.
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