Suez Canal Authority alleges Ever Given master lost control
Legal case adjourned as both sides play for time over compensation case.
Egyptian authorities have claimed that the master of the Ever Given, the mammoth boxship that blocked the Suez Canal in March, lost control of the vessel, veering left and right before going hard aground on the canal’s bank.
Sayed Sheisha, the Suez Canal Authority’s (SCA) chief investigator, was reported as saying: “The captain issued eight commands within 12 minutes as he tried to bring the ship back into alignment.”
The counter claim comes soon after the vessel’s owners, Shoei Kisen, accused the SCA of being at fault for letting the 20,388-teu vessel enter the canal during a period of high winds.
The compensation case involving the vessel was adjourned by a court in Ismailia on Saturday.
