The distance from Ismailia to Suez by this canal is a trifle ... that in a short time a lively trade might be carried on between the Mediterranean ports and the East through the canal. M. DE ...

THE thin hundred-mile ribbon of water connecting the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, now in the limelight as an Italian military road to Ethiopia, has had a confusing history. It was dreamed of for ...

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. How the Suez Canal changed ...

The Suez Canal, one of the world’s most critical waterways, is responsible for 14% of global trade. It’s not only a masterpiece of engineering but also a structure of immense historical and ...

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This article was originally published with the title “ Difficulties to be Surmounted in Working the Suez Canal ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 21 No. 17 (October 1869), p. 260 doi:10. ...

On 19 June, the Suez Canal reopened to very large container vessels after conflict-related closures, and soon after, the ...

The memory of the Suez Canal, which is recorded in documents, rare books, photographs, paintings,etc, is dispersed between different institutions in different countries, such as Suez Canal Authority ...

The Suez Canal is a 193-kilometer sea-level waterway that connects the Mediterranean and Red seas. Designed by French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps, the canal was dug in 1859 and took 10 years to ...

UAE-based National Marine Dredging Company has won a $272 million contract for dredging a section of the Suez Canal where the container ship Ever Given ran aground more than a year ago.

The Canal du Midi includes 91 locks, a series of tunnels, and the world’s first canal bridge, the Pont-Canal de Répudre. Construction began in 1666 and required the labor of approximately ...

LONDON, July 12.--At a meeting of merchants and ship-owners held to-day to discuss the agreement between M. de Lesseps and the British Government in relation to the project for a second Suez Canal ...