Here’s how it works. A satellite image showing the Ever Given in the Suez Canal on March 29, 2021, as the boat became free. (Image credit: Satellite image ©2021 Maxar Technologies) ...

Tug boats refloated an oil tanker that was briefly stranded in Egypt’s Suez Canal late on Wednesday due to a technical fault with its rudder, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said.

According to the Suez Canal Authority, last year, 23,851 vessels passed through the waterway, compared to 20,649 vessels in 2021. The revenue from the canal in 2022 reached $8 billion, the highest ...

In this photo released by the Suez Canal Authority, tug boats and dredgers work to free the Panama-flagged, Japanese-owned Ever Given, which was lodged across the Suez Canal, Sunday, March 28, 2021.

In this photo released by the Suez Canal Authority, tug boats and diggers work to free the Panama-flagged, Japanese-owned Ever Given, which is lodged across the Suez Canal, Sunday, March 28, 2021.

The skyscraper-sized cargo ship wedged across Egypt's Suez Canal further imperiled global shipping Thursday as at least 150 other vessels needing to pass "It's a difficult process.

Navigation in the canal resumed at 6 p.m. local time (1600 GMT, noon EDT) said Lt. Gen. Osama Rabei, head of the Suez Canal Authority, adding that the first ships that were moving carried livestock.