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Egypt offers to cut compensation claim for blocking of Suez Canal
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Last Updated: May 10, 2021, 07:57 AM IST
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The blockage roiled shipping markets because hundreds of vessels had to wait for the canal which can shave two weeks off a journey between Asia and Europe to reopen.
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Egypt offered to reduce claims by a third for compensation from owners of the container ship that blocked the Suez Canal in March, Suez Canal Authority Chairman Osama Rabie told MBC Masr channel television channel.
The canal authority said it would reduce the claims for compensation to $600 million from $900 million, according to Rabie. The SCA also offered payment terms to owners of the Ever Given container ship but they have yet to respond, he said.
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By Abdel Latif Wahba (Bloomberg) Egypt offered to reduce claims by a third for compensation from owners of the container ship that blocked the Suez Canal in March, Suez Canal Authority Chairman Osama Rabie told MBC Masr channel television channel.
The canal authority said it would reduce the claims for compensation to $600 million from $900 million, according to Rabie. The SCA also offered payment terms to owners of the Ever Given container ship but they have yet to respond, he said.
An Egyptian court granted the Suez Canal Authority’s request for the seizure of the vessel in mid-April as compensation talks dragged on. The blockage roiled shipping markets because hundreds of vessels had to wait for the canal which can shave two weeks off a journey between Asia and Europe to reopen.
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