CAIRO: Traffic in Egypt’s Suez Canal on Monday returned to normal, a day after an oil tanker ran aground in the waterway, a canal official said.
The 54,000-tonne tanker, flying the Liberian flag, had disrupted traffic on Sunday after it rammed into the east bank of the canal, without causing any spillage.
The ship was towed to the south of the channel for repairs, said canal spokesman Mahmud Abdul Wahab.
The Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, is Egypt’s third-largest source of revenue after tourism and remittances from expatriate workers.
