The tugboat Fahd, which had sunk after colliding with an LPG carrier, has been successfully recovered by the Suez Canal Authority.
After colliding with the LPG carrier Chinagas Legend over the weekend, the tugboat capsized in the Suez Canal, killing one person on board.
Near the 51-mile mark of the Al-Balah bypass, an incident occurred, but the petrol carrier from Hong Kong was unharmed.
The sunken vessel has been raised using the Authority’s Inkaz salvage crane, according to Ossama Rabiee, chairman and managing director of the Suez Canal Authority, and the river is now open.
The salvage effort was completed without interfering with Canal traffic despite difficult water currents, poor underwater visibility, and deep dives that reached depths of 27 meters.
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A thorough survey was carried out to locate the tugboat before the Fahd was retrieved. In order to safeguard the region and guarantee safe passage for vessels, warning, and guide buoys were subsequently installed. At the recovery site, precautions were also taken to limit the possibility of environmental harm from oil spills.
After the incident, the Canal’s flow was temporarily halted while salvagers tried to remove the tugboat’s wreckage.
Rabiee emphasized that the salvage attempts had had no impact on the Canal’s traffic, which had resumed flowing normally in both directions. There were 146 transits in the Canal throughout the course of Monday and Tuesday, totaling 8.4 million metric tons in net tonnage.
In contrast to prior years, this year has seen a number of mishaps along the Canal, including more groundings.
