Egypt salvage crews continue to recover sunken Suez Canal tugboat

Egyptian salvage crews have begun to lift the wreckage of a tugboat that sank after it collided with a Hong Kong-flagged LPG tanker, the strategic chokepoint’s authority chief Osama Rabie said on Sunday.

Shipping traffic through the waterway from the north was unaffected by the incident, while the convoy of ships passing from the south are now moving normally, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said in a statement.

One of the tugboat’s crew members has died while six others have been rescued and taken to hospital, he said, citing ongoing efforts to locate a remaining missing individual, added the SCA statement.

In March of 2021, shipping traffic in the Suez Canal was grinded to a halt for nearly a week after the Ever Given, one of the world’s largest container ships, ran aground near the southern tip of the waterway.

Source: Kuwait News Agency