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 Suez Canal is a vital sea trading route, depended upon by businesses and economies around the world. The waterway was constructed by the British and the French in the 19th century, officially ...

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 ...

Events in the Red Sea and regional challenges cost Egypt around $7 billion in revenues from the Suez Canal in 2024, Egyptian ...

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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 ...

The blockage of Egypt's Suez canal by a giant container ship is causing ... An alternative route, around the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip of Africa, can take two weeks longer.

The massive container ship blocking the width of the Suez Canal has other vessels weighing the lengthy, costly, and perilous decision of whether to detour around Africa instead. As demonstrated in ...

Opened in 1869, the canal connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea. It provides the fastest crossing between the Atlantic and Indian oceans.