Admiral Ossama Rabiee, Chairman and Managing Director of the Suez Canal Authority, announced the return of EVER GREEN shipping line to transit through the Suez Canal. The Canal’s navigation statistics recorded, today, Sunday, the first transit of the mega container ship EVER EON as part of the north convoy, en route from the Netherlands to Singapore.
The vessel, operated by EVERGREEN, measures 369 meters in length, with a beam of 53.6 meters, and a gross tonnage of 185,000 tons and a capacity of up to 16,556 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU).
The vessel is currently deployed on the NEU 7 service, operated by Ocean Alliance, which provides a direct link between major ports along the trade route connecting the Far East and Northwest Europe.
In accordance with the protocol established by the Suez Canal Authority for vessels transiting through the Canal for the first time, Admiral Ossama Rabiee delegated SCA Chief Pilots: Captain Mahmoud Abu Ajila and Captain Yazid Yahia, Portsaid sector, and Captain Elhamy El-Bably and Captain Nader Nagy, Ismailia sector, to board the vessel, welcome its crew, and present a commemorative gift to the ship's Master.
Admiral Ossama Rabiee affirmed that the return of the shipping line EVERGREEN to transiting through the Suez Canal serves as a positive indicator that global trade between the East and the West is returning to its sustainable path.
Admiral Rabiee further pointed out that EVERGREEN intends to resume additional voyages through the Canal in the coming period, following a suspension of nearly three years since the outbreak of the Red Sea crisis.
H.E. underscored that the Suez Canal has successfully brought back numerous maritime services affiliated to major shipping lines and operating on the trade route between Europe and Asia; namely (CMA CGM, Maersk, MSC, Hapag Lloyd, COSCO and EVERGREEN), in a step reflecting the Canal’s strategic significance as a main axis linking the East and the West.