Efforts to free a container ship wedged diagonally across the Suez Canal have succeeded. The 400m (1300ft) Ever Given was stuck in the mud and sand right across the southern end of the canal since ...

Egypt has tested a new 10-kilometre extension to the Suez Canal. This aims to minimize the impact of currents on shipping and ...

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But de Lesseps was certainly not the first to imagine a canal linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas—and, by extension, Europe and Asia—through the Isthmus of Suez. The idea was ancient ...

Egypt said on Saturday it had successfully tested a new 10 km channel near the southern end of the Suez Canal, even as its ...

The change involved is not just giving a tanker captain a different map and saying “get on with it.” Because of the relative size of the Suez Canal, there are different sizes of tankers ...

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