{"id":518488,"date":"2022-09-01T10:25:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T04:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=518488"},"modified":"2022-09-01T11:40:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T06:10:36","slug":"oil-tanker-briefly-blocks-suez-canal-freed-within-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-tanker-briefly-blocks-suez-canal-freed-within-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil tanker briefly blocks Suez Canal; freed within hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An oil tanker ran aground in Egypt\u2019s Suez Canal, briefly blocking the global waterway before it was freed, the canal\u2019s authority said.<\/p>\n<p>The Singaporean-flagged Affinity V vessel had become wedged in a single-lane stretch of the canal Wednesday, the Suez Canal Authority\u2019s head Osama Rabie said in a statement issued by the body.<\/p>\n<p>He said that five of the authority\u2019s tug boats managed to get the vessel floating again in a coordinated operation. He said a technical failure in the boat\u2019s steering mechanism caused it to hit the bank of the canal, and that navigation for other ships passing through the canal had returned to normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An oil tanker ran aground in Egypt\u2019s Suez Canal, briefly blocking the global waterway before it was freed, the canal\u2019s authority said. The Singaporean-flagged Affinity V vessel had become wedged in a single-lane stretch of the canal Wednesday, the Suez Canal Authority\u2019s head Osama Rabie said in a statement issued by the body. He said that five of the authority\u2019s tug boats managed to get the vessel floating again in a coordinated operation. He said a technical failure in the boat\u2019s steering mechanism caused it to hit the bank of the canal, and that navigation for other ships passing through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}