Yesterday afternoon the Russian oil tanker Komander, which departed from Murmansk and bound for China, ran aground in the Suez Canal, at kilometer 47. The Suez Canal Authority has announced that it has received notice from the ship of a breakdown of the machinery that has caused the accident and sent the tugboats to the scene Mohamed Bashir, Mosaed 4, Port Said 3, Suez 1 and Nabil El-Hilali to free the tanker and make it resume navigation and the tugboat Ezzat Adel to overseeing the rescue operations that lasted just 30 Minutes. The Authority specified that the Ezzat Adel vessel then towed the Komander to the Lakes area Amari and the naval traffic in the Egyptian canal has returned to the full normality.

The tanker, of 80 thousand gross tons, is 274 meters long and has been included in the lists of United Kingdom, Switzerland and Ukraine of naval units sanctioned due to the invasion of Ukraine by the Russia. The ownership and operation of Komander is attributed to Yo Shui Marine Limited, a Hong Kong company which was incorporated on September 19, 2024.