Laden VLCCs that cannot use the Suez Canal at present, and go round the Cape route with their oil cargos, loaded in Algeria and in Mediterranean ports west of Algeria, as well as the North Sea and North West Europe, are now invited to go through the Suez Canal by unloading part of their cargo at Arab Petroleum Pipelines Co.( Sumed ) storage tanks in Sidi Krair, where the unloaded amount can be loaded into a medium size tanker, whereby the two tankers ( the VLCC and the medium size tanker ) can then transit the Canal southbound. The smaller tanker shall discharge the oil in Sukhna to be reloaded to the VLCC, and shall return in ballast through the Suez Canal northbound.
In this scenario the two tankers shall be treated as shown below:-