Yesterday, on a particularly busy day for traffic naval traffic in the Suez Canal at least according to average traffic volumes maritime traffic recorded after the onset of the crisis in the Sea region Red, in the Egyptian canal there was the grounding of a ship that was rescued by four tugboats of the Suez Canal Authority. Among the fifty ships that passed through yesterday, in fact, the bulk carrier Xin Tai Yuan, of the Panamanian flag, which had departed from Denmark and was bound for Singapore, suffered a technical failure at the rudder while he was at kilometer 87 of the canal that caused the accident that occurred at noon hour local area. The intervention of the tugboats, and the repair of the fault technical by the bulk carrier crew, allowed to the ship to resume navigation at 4 p.m. in the direction of the Great Bitter Lakes, where inspections have been launched to ascertain the integrity of the airport. The channel authority has stressed that the incident did not result in the interruption of the maritime traffic in the Egyptian waterway.

The Xin Tai Yuan, of 40 thousand gross tons, is 225 meters long and 32.2 meters wide.