Region: Egypt, Suez Canal approaches, Red Sea, Mediterranean approaches
Suez Canal
The Suez Canal is a high-density, high-traffic maritime chokepoint connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. Incidents in Suez Canal approaches often involve:
- Dense anchored vessel traffic near Port Said and Port Suez
- Complex navigation in confined waters with strong currents
- Time-critical transits under Suez Canal Authority (SCA) coordination
- Rules of the Road compliance challenges in Traffic Separation Schemes (TSS)
- Bridge Resource Management failures under operational pressure
Related Concepts
Accidents
Accidents linked to this region are grouped below.
Grounded (12)
- 2025-10-28: Komander (2025)
- 2023-03-05: MSC Istanbul (2023)
- 2023-02-01: Grace Emilia (2023)
- 2021-05-28: Maersk Emerald (2021)
- 2021-03-23: Ever Given (2021)
- 2018-07-15: Aeneas (2018)
- 2017-10-18: Grounding of OOCL Japan in the Suez Canal
- 2017-01-04: MSC Clorinda (2017)
- 2016-07-05: Maersk Shams (2016)
- 2016-04-28: MSC Fabiola grounding in the Suez Canal (2016)
- 2016-02-25: New Katerina (2016)
- 2015-04-19: Susan Maersk (2015)
Allision (3)
- 2018-06-06: OOCL Japan embankment strike in the Suez Canal (2018)
- 2016-05-03: COSCO Hope (2016)
- 2015-10-27: APL Temasek (2015)