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The Suez Canal is a man-made waterway and is one of the world’s most heavily used shipping lanes. It connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean, via the Red Sea, and is 120 miles long.
The world is full of critical points that shape global politics, economics, and security. In 1904, British Admiral John Fisher identified five key locations that "lock" the world: the Strait of Dover, ...
Egyptian authorities say an oil-drilling ship capsized in the Gulf of Suez, killing at least four crewmen and leaving four others missing.
I’m talking about the Suez Canal. One of the world’s biggest container ships is awkwardly stuck in the canal, leaving a long line of other ship traffic piled up in its wake.
The container ship that has been stuck in the Suez Canal for almost a week has been freed, a Suez Canal Authority spokesperson told CNN. Follow here for the latest.
Satellite images show dozens of vessels stuck in the Gulf of Suez — in the northern end of the Red Sea — while the 1,300-foot-long Ever Given is wedged diagonally in the canal, blocking their ...
CAIRO (Reuters) - The Suez Canal Authority's chairman, Osama Rabie, said on Monday that navigational maps for the planned 10km (6.2 mile) canal extension were issued.
On March 23, 2021, one of the world's largest shipping vessels got stuck in the Suez Canal, a critical maritime artery that handles about 12% of global trade annually. Five days later, at the time ...
Both Suez Canal Authority officials and Evergreen Marine have blamed winds that reportedly reached up to 30 mph. But that explanation has garnered some skepticism, ...
Before the grounding of the massive Ever Given container ship in the Suez Canal, some 50 vessels a day, or about 10% of global trade, sailed through the waterway each day — everything from ...