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, ...

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.

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.

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 Ever Given collided with the bank of the Suez Canal on Tuesday, beginning an embarrassing blockage that was still disrupting traffic two days later.

One of the world’s biggest ships remains wedged across Suez Canal, disrupting a key trade route March 25, 2021 More than 4 years ago Summary ...

The Panama and the Suez must grow to accommodate the super-ships that now ply the world's ocean. This is how they'll do it.

The container ship Ever Given has finally been unstuck from the Suez Canal, but there will be lingering consequences to its nearly week-long blockade of the vital trade corridor.

The growing traffic snarl in the Suez Canal could take weeks to untangle — and is threatening to wreak havoc on the world economy in the process.

An illustration of opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons On November 17, 1869, the esteemed guests of Ismaʻil Pasha, Ottoman viceroy of Egypt, gathered on the ...

Initially it was the sheer oddity of a ship being stuck in the Suez Canal, single-handedly snarling global trade in a world already mired in a pandemic, that grabbed the online world’s attention.

The engineers must make certain that any unexploded bombs or artillery shells that fell in the canal are fished out before the world’s ships pass once more through Suez.