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Jun 7, 2024 · And it could impact you. In January 2023, the Singapore-flagged cargo ship Maersk Hidalgo travelled from Singapore to Rotterdam in the Netherlands, crossing the Suez Canal. The canal is the main...
Jun 15, 2024 · Suez Canal, sea-level waterway running north-south across the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt to connect the Mediterranean and the Red seas. The canal separates the African continent from Asia, and it provides the shortest maritime route between Europe and the lands lying around the Indian and western Pacific oceans.
- The Suez Canal is a human-made waterway that cuts north-south across the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt. The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea to...
- The Suez Canal is important because it is the shortest maritime route from Europe to Asia. Prior to its construction, ships headed toward Asia had...
- Various forms of what is today the Suez Canal existed in Egypt between 1850 BCE and 775 CE, although primarily to facilitate trade between the Nile...
- The Suez Canal was financed by the Suez Canal Company, a joint-stock company headquartered in Paris. At the time of its founding, France had 52 per...
- The Suez Canal’s international status has a murky history. Per the 1888 Convention of Constantinople, the canal is open to ships of all nations in...
- In 2018 there were 18,174 transits of the Suez Canal, according to the Suez Canal Authority. That number rose to 18,880 in 2019, or about 51.5 per...
2 days ago · The Panama Canal (Spanish: Canal de Panamá) is an artificial 82-kilometre (51-mile) waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, cutting across the Isthmus of Panama, and is a conduit for maritime trade.
Jun 19, 2024 · English Channel, narrow arm of the Atlantic Ocean separating the southern coast of England from the northern coast of France and tapering eastward to its junction with the North Sea at the Strait of Dover. Its location has given it immense significance over the centuries.
2 days ago · PHNOM PENH – Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sun Chanthol has called the outcry over the country’s upcoming US$1.7 billion (S$2.3 billion), 180km canal project an exercise of “double, triple ...
2 days ago · The canal “purely serves socio-economic benefit as it provides more waterways to south-western Cambodia (in addition) to the existing transport routes along the Mekong River”, he wrote.
Jun 15, 2024 · Following the armistice between Israel and its Arab opponents in 1949, Egypt denied use of the canal to Israel and to all ships trading with Israel. The first of two canal closings occurred during the Suez Crisis of 1956–57, after Israel
