Para el martes por la mañana había más de 300 embarcaciones a ambos lados del Canal de Suez y en el Gran Lago Amargo que esperaban a recibir luz verde para navegar hacia sus destinos, indicó ...

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 ...

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 ...

A handout picture released by the Suez Canal Authority on March 24, 2021 shows a part of the Taiwan-owned MV Ever Given (Evergreen), a 400-metre- (1,300-foot-)long and 59-metre wide vessel, lodged ...

Celebrations of the Suez Canal’s opening began Nov. 15, 1869, and lasted for days, including fireworks, a 6,000-person ball and a flotilla of boats bearing dignitaries and officials.

Heartwarming Suez Canal fact: Nasser’s mention in a 1956 radio broadcast of Frenchman Ferdinand de Lesseps - who oversaw the building of the canal by forced labourers - was the coded signal for ...

Suez Canal blocked: A brief history of the Egyptian trade route and the Ever Given stranded in its waters. Man-made waterway opened in 1869 but grand vision of passage to India dates back to pharaohs ...

Napoleon met his Waterloo, but the idea didn't go away. A canal across the Isthmus of Suez could cut the ocean distance from Europe to Asia by up to 6,000 miles, and it could be built at sea level ...

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 ...

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 ...

So Viscount (and diplomat) Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps founded La Campagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez (Universal Company of the Suez Maritime Canal) in 1858 to dig the ditch.