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"They said it took 15 minutes for tug boats swiftly dispatched to the site to refloat the vessel and allow south-bound vessels stuck behind it to resume their journey.

“It was a minor traffic issue that was resolved in less than an hour,” a senior Suez Canal official told The National on condition of anonymity.

Since the 'Ever Given' incident, the canal authority have announced a multi-billion dollar project to widen sections of the canal and install other infrastructure to ensure that no other large ships can run aground in the same manner again."

Glad to see that it was resolved quickly, and that the canal is being upgraded to make it more resilient to things like that.