Cairo – Mubasher: The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has offered "great facilities" to the owner of the Ever Given container vessel that blocked the Suez Canal in March to make negotiations on compensation successful, the authority’s Chairman, Osama Rabie, said.
The authority has been flexible to all the special requirements of the negotiations and responded to all the requests made by the ship owner, including allowing two crew members to leave the ship and return to their homeland for urgent personal circumstances, according to a statement.
Rabie denied allegations of detaining the ship crew, noting the SCA does not mind the departure or recrew operations as long as there is a sufficient number of sailors to secure the vessel, along with the ship captain who stands as the juridical guardian of the ship and the cargo aboard.
