Original title: Suez Canal Administration requested the owner of the cargo ship "Changzhi" to pay compensation source: CCTV news client
Egypt's Suez Canal Authority said in a statement on May 23 that its legal representative had asked the owner of the ship Changzhi to pay $916 million in compensation, including the cost of all equipment involved in the canal rescue work. such as dredgers, tower cranes, cranes and excavators.
The Suez Canal Authority issued a press statement after the Economic Court of the City of Ismailia in Egypt made a ruling on the appeal of the shipowner company on the 23rd. The court ruled that the Economic Court had no special jurisdiction over the trial of the "Changzhi" freighter case, and transferred the case to the junior court of the Economic Court of Ismailia, which was scheduled to be heard again on the 29th.
The decision made by the Court of Appeal of the Economic Court of Ismailia on the 23rd marks another failure of the owner of the "long Gift" in seeking to release the seizure.
On March 23, the Changzhi ran aground on the Suez Canal, suspending the canal for six days. The Changzhi escaped and sailed into the waters of Dagu Lake, where the freighter was seized by the Suez Canal Authority, which filed a claim of $1 billion against the shipowner company. (front desk reporter Wu Aimin)