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EGYPT

Suez traffic resumes as tanker towed away

Egypt deployed three tugboats on Sunday to tow away an oil tanker that had broken down and caused brief delays in the Suez Canal, authorities said. Traffic in both directions returned to normal after a brief disruption when the Malta-flagged Seavigour experienced a "machinery malfunction" while en route from Russia to China, the Suez Canal Authority said. Three tugboats "successfully towed and moored the ship" at a shipyard where the technical fault will be fixed before the tanker "resumes its crossing", according to a statement.