<p>Traffic through the Suez Canal has resumed normally, the canal authority said on Wednesday, hours after a collision of two vessels temporarily caused delays.</p>.<p>"Slight contact" was made after liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier BW Lesmes made a sudden stop due to a technical failure that coincided with a strong current that drove oil tanker Burri towards it, authority chairman Osama Rabie said in an earlier statement on Wednesday.</p>.Two tankers collide briefly in Suez Canal.<p>The canal authority responded by sending tugboats to move both ships, he said.</p>.<p>Singapore-flagged BW Lesmes was successfully towed outside of the waterway, Rabie said, while Cayman Islands-flagged Burri was at the Suez anchorage, according to ship tracker MarineTraffic.</p>.<p>BW LNG AS, operators of BW Lesmes, reported the vessel ran aground transiting southbound through the Suez Canal at approximately 21:35 (1835 GMT) on Tuesday, BW Group said in a statement.</p>.<p>The low speed collision did not affect the vessel's operational capabilities and the vessel "remains structurally sound," it added.</p>.<p>BW Lesmes was successfully re-floated at 03:30 a.m. local time on Wednesday and would undergo further inspections at Suez anchorage.</p>.<p>The Suez Canal chairman said there did not appear to be any significant damage or pollution but that Burri had a steering failure that would require repair.</p>.<p>TMS Tankers, which manages Burri, did not respond to requests for comment.</p>.<p>The Suez Canal is one of the world's busiest waterways and the shortest shipping route between Europe and Asia.</p>.Like China, India may also get a dedicated industrial zone in Egypt's Suez Canal Economic Zone .<p>About 12 per cent of the world's trade moves through the canal. During strong winds in 2021, a huge container ship, the Ever Given, became jammed across it, halting traffic in both directions for six days and disrupting global trade.</p>
<p>Traffic through the Suez Canal has resumed normally, the canal authority said on Wednesday, hours after a collision of two vessels temporarily caused delays.</p>.<p>"Slight contact" was made after liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier BW Lesmes made a sudden stop due to a technical failure that coincided with a strong current that drove oil tanker Burri towards it, authority chairman Osama Rabie said in an earlier statement on Wednesday.</p>.Two tankers collide briefly in Suez Canal.<p>The canal authority responded by sending tugboats to move both ships, he said.</p>.<p>Singapore-flagged BW Lesmes was successfully towed outside of the waterway, Rabie said, while Cayman Islands-flagged Burri was at the Suez anchorage, according to ship tracker MarineTraffic.</p>.<p>BW LNG AS, operators of BW Lesmes, reported the vessel ran aground transiting southbound through the Suez Canal at approximately 21:35 (1835 GMT) on Tuesday, BW Group said in a statement.</p>.<p>The low speed collision did not affect the vessel's operational capabilities and the vessel "remains structurally sound," it added.</p>.<p>BW Lesmes was successfully re-floated at 03:30 a.m. local time on Wednesday and would undergo further inspections at Suez anchorage.</p>.<p>The Suez Canal chairman said there did not appear to be any significant damage or pollution but that Burri had a steering failure that would require repair.</p>.<p>TMS Tankers, which manages Burri, did not respond to requests for comment.</p>.<p>The Suez Canal is one of the world's busiest waterways and the shortest shipping route between Europe and Asia.</p>.Like China, India may also get a dedicated industrial zone in Egypt's Suez Canal Economic Zone .<p>About 12 per cent of the world's trade moves through the canal. During strong winds in 2021, a huge container ship, the Ever Given, became jammed across it, halting traffic in both directions for six days and disrupting global trade.</p>