Suez Canal appreciated loss of motion blocking

The head of the management of the Suez Canal Osama Rabia rated the financial losses from blocking the movement of the heat-by-stranded container shipment Ever Given, according to him, they can achieve one billion dollars. Reports about it Reuters.

“Estimates, if God gives a billion dollars,” said Rabia on the air TV channel “Garden Al-Balad”. He clarified that this amount includes the cost of removing the vessel from the mel.

Ever Given container ship in the long-term administration of the Taiwan Evergreen Group, on March 23, made a stranded in the southern part of the Suez Canal, which does not have doubles. He followed from China in Rotterdam (Netherlands). It was previously reported that container ship accidentally deviated from the course due to a strong wind. March 29 Navigation at the Suez Channel resumed.

/Media reports.