A ship is grounded in Egypt’s Suez Canal, one of the world’s busiest shipping routes.
Leth Shipping Agency said that tugboats are trying to re-float the vessel, and at least four other vessels are stuck behind it.
The ship has been identified as the Xin Hai Tong 23, a bulk carrier that was built in 2010 and is sailing under the flag of Hong Kong, according to the website MarineTraffic.com.
The Suez Canal is just 200m wide at its narrowest point and runs between Port Said (Būr Sa’īd) on the Mediterranean Sea, and Suez (al-Suways) on the Red Sea.
In 2021, another ship – the Ever Given – became stuck for six days when it hit the bank of a single-lane stretch of the canal about 3.7 miles north of the southern entrance, near the city of Suez.
The ship had been on its way to the Dutch port of Rotterdam and its grounding had caused chaos for the shipping industry which was at the time under pressure from supply chain problems of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This story originally appeared on Skynews
