The Second/New Egyptian Suez Channel

Yesterday, The Second Suez Channel has been opened and The Celebration was yesterday.



What is it?!

It's a channel link between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea and it has been opened on 6/8/2015.



Is there anther Suez Channel?!


Yes,
Suez Canal is a waterway artificial duplication traffic in Egypt, with a length of 193 km and up between Bahrain white, red, and is divided longitudinally into two sections north and south of the Bitter Lakes, and incidental to the two-lane in most parts of the cleared cross the ships in two directions at the same time between each from Europe and Asia, and is the fastest sea lane between the two continents and provide about 15 days on average from the time of the trip via the Cape of Good Hope.

The idea of ​​the establishment of the channel with the arrival of the French campaign on Egypt in 1798, and the thought of Napoleon in the incision channel, but the idea failed, and in 1854, de Lesseps was able to persuade the Khedive Saeed and got the Porte approval, which the Khedive Saeed hereby grant the French company a concession for a period of 99 years, construction of the canal took 10 years (1859-1869), [1] and contributed to the drilling nearly a million Egyptian workers process, during which he died more than 120 thousand of them during the drilling process, following hunger, thirst, epidemics and ill-treatment, was the opening of the channel in 1869 in a ceremony majestic and budget is huge, and in 1905 tried the company to extend the franchise 50 years additional But again later failed, and in July 1956, President Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, which caused later in Britain and France declare war on Egypt within the tripartite aggression which They ended their withdrawal.

It caused the 1967 war in the closure of the Suez Canal for more than 8 years, until President Sadat re-opened in June 1975, has seen the channel then attempts to expand it began in 1980, as well as the idea converted into a logistics services area, and in the August 5, 2014 was the inauguration of digging a parallel channel for the Lamar project Navigating the current 72-km-long, to enable ships and tankers from crossing the Channel in both directions at the same time. And to avoid the current problems of the north convoy stopped for more than 11 hours in the Bitter Lakes region, and reduce the time to cross the channel in general trip, thus contributing to the increase in revenue for the current channel. That the project be completed within one year on August 6, 2015.

The Suez Canal, one of the most important marine sewage in the world, where the channel revenues in the fiscal year (2014 - 2015) about 39 billion Egyptian pounds. and pass through the channel between 8% to 12% of the global trade volume.



Some photos of The Second Suez Channel Celebration:-

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