Suez Canal traffic continues normally despite vessel grounding outside channel

Navigation through the Suez Canal is proceeding normally in both directions and has not been affected by the grounding of the general cargo vessel FENER, according to the Suez Canal Authority.

Admiral Ossama Rabiee, Chairman and Managing Director of the Suez Canal Authority, said the incident occurred outside the Canal’s navigational channel, in the western anchorage area north of Port Said, approximately five miles west of the Canal’s northern entrance in the Mediterranean Sea.