Two tankers collided in the Suez Canal

MOSCOW, August 23 - RIA Novosti. LPG tanker Burri collided in the Suez Canal with BW Lesmes tanker carrying oil products, Marinetraffic reported on Twitter, citing an eyewitness.
According to the service that monitors the position of ships, the state of emergency happened to the ships Burri under the flag of the Cayman Islands and BW Lesmes under the flag of Singapore. Later, the portal posted towing monitoring data, which indicate that Burri was towed after the collision.
Data on the Marinetraffic website as of 02:49 GMT indicate that tankers are standing next to each other in the southern part of the Suez Canal.

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Huge backlog of 200 ships are stuck trying to enter the Panama Canal as they wait WEEKS amid slowed traffic due to drought: Delays set to wipe $200M off profits and cause spike in US grocery and parcel prices

— The large vessels, thought to be carrying millions of dollars worth of goods, are locked in a traffic jam with some waiting for weeks to cross the Panama Canal
— Vessel-tracking data shows hundreds of ships, mainly bulk cargo or gas carriers, waiting near entrances on the Pacific and Atlantic oceans
— The number of daily transits through the canal has been capped at 32 by water authorities in a bid to conserve water.
by Daily Mail

The entrances on both sides of the Panama Canal are jammed with some ships backed up for more than 20 days.
Some shipowners have resorted to rerouting their journeys to avoid the backlog.
The canal uses three times as much water as New York City on a daily basis and needs rainfall to replace it.
But the rainy season is yet to arrive in Panama and the canal is going through its driest spell in more than a century.
Restrictions for the number of vessels passing through has been extended until September 2.
'The delays are changing by the day. Once you make a decision to go there is no point to return or deviate, so you can get stuck,' Tim Hansen, chief commercial officer at Dorian LPG, which operates large gas carriers, told the Wall Street Journal.
Without enough rain, the ship transits are cut and the lucky ones that cross pay hefty premiums.
This increases transport costs for cargo owners like American oil as well as Asian importers and gas exporters.
Ricaurte Vásquez Morales, the administrator of the Panama Canal, warned the restrictions could have to remain in place until the rest of the year.
He said the drought could see a $200million drop in revenue next year if the low rainfall continues into winter.
Conditions of extreme rain or drought are a lot more regular than in the early years of the canal's operation, according to him.
It presents a huge challenge for the Panama Canal Authority which supplies water to around half the country's population of 4.5 million.
'The Canal communicates with its customers so that the information allows them to make the best decisions even if it means that they may choose another route temporarily,' Vásquez Morales said.
'Demand remains high which proves the Panama Canal remains competitive in most segments, even with measures to save water.'
Operators have hired the US Army Corps of Engineers, who originally built the canal, and has set aside $2billion over the next decade to divert four rivers into the waterway and help ships flow through.
The canal already has three rivers that feed into it.
Wide disruption has not been caused for containerships which are the canal's biggest users.
Most are given preferential status because they work on fixed schedules and book crossings up to a year in advance.

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Prigozhin died.

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Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin died. Information from the council of commanders of PMC "Wagner". This is the end.

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Traces of shrapnel of an anti-aircraft missile. The plane was shot down.

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The death of Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin was confirmed by the chairman of the movement "We are together with Russia" Vladimir Rogov.

"I just talked with outstanding "musicians". They confirm the fact of the deaths of Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin. The Kingdom of Heaven to the newly departed servants of God, Eugene and Dmitry," he said.

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Putin took part in the event in honor of the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Battle of Kursk

Speaking to the guests and veterans, the head of state said: "No tigers, panthers and other evil spirits could break the strength of the spirit of a Soviet soldier."

The Head of State also said that state awards to the participants of the Special Military Operation will be presented today on the legendary Kursk land.

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The famous crew of the "Alyosha" tank, which destroyed a convoy of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporizhia direction, received the stars of "Heroes of Russia" personally from Vladimir Putin.

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A previously unpublished video where the head of the "Wagner Group" Yevgeny Prigozhin visits the cemetery where his fighters "musicians" who died for the Motherland are buried.

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