Title: Suez Canal: Navigation Unaffected by Container Ship Malfunction

The Suez Canal Authority announced that a container ship collided with a floating bridge in the eastern passage of the Suez Canal, but the incident did not affect navigation in the canal. The authority stated in a statement that it dispatched four tugboats to tow the ship (Wan Orpheus), which lost steering control due to a malfunction in its rudder, leading to the collision with a floating bridge while crossing the canal as part of the south convoy on its journey from Singapore to the Netherlands. The incident occurred in the eastern passage of the central part of the canal, known as the New Suez Canal, which was completed in 2015 as part of a plan to expand the canal.