Tug boats refloated an oil tanker that was briefly stranded in Egypt's Suez Canal late on Wednesday as a consequence of a technical fault with its rudder, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) stated.The vessel, Affinity V, had been blocking the southern part of the canal, two navigational sources stated, however SCA sources stated shortly after midnight native time that site visitors had returned to regular.The incident occurred in the identical southern, single-lane stretch of the canal the place a large cargo ship, the Ever Given, ran aground for six days in March 2021, disrupting international commerce.In accordance with ship monitoring service TankerTrackers, the Aframax tanker Affinity V appeared to have misplaced management within the Suez Canal on Wednesday night whereas heading south."She quickly clogged up site visitors and is now dealing with south once more, however shifting slowly by tugboat help," TankerTrackers stated on Twitter.Refinitiv ship-tracking information and the Marine Visitors web site additionally confirmed the Affinity V dealing with southwards and touring slowly within the canal, surrounded by tugs.The Singapore-flagged tanker was headed for the Pink Sea port of Yanbu in Saudi Arabia, the monitoring websites stated.After the Ever Given ran aground, the SCA had introduced accelerated plans to increase the canal, together with extending a second channel that permits transport to move in each instructions alongside a part of its course and deepening an present channel.Work on the growth is because of be accomplished in 2023.(Reuters - Reporting by Yousri Mohamed, Yasmin Hussein, Yomna Ehab and Nafisa Eltahir; Writing by Aidan Lewis; Modifying by Mark Porter, Christian Schmollinger and Himani Sarkar)