Ismailia

Qatar is just getting started GLORY vessel Now in the course of navigation of the Suez Canal by the locomotives of the authority to repair the sudden malfunction.

Lt. Gen. Osama Rabie, head of the Suez Canal Authority, said the authority’s maritime rescue team professionally dealt with a sudden technical failure of the machinery of the bulk carrier GLORY at kilometer 38 as it transited within the Northern convoy on its voyage from Turkey to China , where work is underway to tow the idle vessel. per kilometer 51 channel numbering.

Lieutenant General Osama Rabie has sent a message of reassurance on the regularity of navigation in the channel, as the entry of 26 ships of the southern convoy has been organized, and the northern convoy will cross after the ship GLORY has resumed crossing the channel with the help of the authority’s locomotive.

Lt. Gen. Rabie said the authority possesses the necessary rescue skills and the necessary technical belaying and navigational skills to professionally deal with potential emergency situations.

The head of the authority explained that 4 locomotives were pushed forward by the Port Said locomotive with a tensile strength of 95 tons, to quickly cope with the situation and tow the ship, allowing it to resume the channel crossing again until to stop at the nearest point in the Al-Balah area to repair the malfunction.

The ship is 225 meters long and 32 wide, has a tonnage of 41,000 tons and is affiliated to the Inchcape shipping agency.

The navigation reports record today, Monday, God willing, 51 vessels crossing from both directions, and the number of vessels crossing from the north direction is 25 vessels, and from the south direction 26 vessels are crossing the new channel of channel navigation.