In the early hours of this morning in the Suez Canal the product tanker Burri collided the ship for liquefied natural gas BW Lesmes after the latter due to a fault was not managed to continue crossing the canal. The accident, minor, caused the temporary interruption of the Maritime traffic in the Egyptian waterway that has resumed after a few hours of stoppage thanks to the intervention of tugs of the Suez Canal Authority. The latter has announced that the first inspections of the two ships have established that they have not occurred significant damage and that no pollution.

The LNG ship BW Lesmes, of 115 thousand tons of tonnage gross, it is 295 meters long and 46 meters wide, while the Burri, Of 65 thousand GRT, it is 250 meters long and 44 meters wide.