A gas tanker collided with a product tanker last night on the Suez Canal with the giant 295 m long BW Lesmes<\/em> LNG carrier briefly straddling both banks of the waterway in a grim reminder of 2021\u2019s Ever Given<\/em> grounding incident<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Suez Canal Authority was able to quickly deploy tugboats and traffic resumed along the canal within a few hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to MarineTraffic, the accident happened between the Burri<\/em> product tanker and BW Lesmes<\/em>. The Suez Canal Authority said one of the ships had broken down without identifying which one.\u00a0<\/p>\n MarineTraffic issued a time-lapse of the accident which suggests it was the gas carrier which broke down. The video shows the Burri <\/em>turning to port and colliding with the BW Lesmes <\/em>which was already lying across the waterway.\u00a0<\/p>\n The canal has had an eventful year in terms of the number of accidents with groundings far more numerous than in previous years.<\/p>\n