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 ...

The Suez and Panama Canals are among the most important sea trade routes in the world. In 2022 alone, almost 23,900 ships transported around 1.4 billion tons of freight through the 193-kilometre-long ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - The new stretch of the Suez Canal near Egypt's Little Bitter Lake will be operational in the first quarter of this year, the chairman of the canal authority Osama Rabie said on ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Suez Canal Authority chairman Osama Rabei said on Sunday that 47 ships have been rerouted from Cape of Good Hope to Suez Canal since the start of February. Earlier this month ...