At Ismailia, a handsome and well-built town, the maritime rigole ceases, and the Sweet-water Canal, which brings the Nile waters to the centre of the desert, branches on toward Suez.

Egyptian authorities say an oil-drilling ship capsized in the Gulf of Suez, killing at least four crewmen and leaving four ...

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 ...

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 ...

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:10.1038 ...

Denmark's Maersk has scheduled several dozen container vessels to travel via the Suez Canal and the Red Sea in the coming days and weeks, it said on Wednesday, in a further sign that global ...

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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.

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.

Memory of the Suez Canal 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 ...

THE Suez Canal was completed in 1869, and since that date it has been invaded from both ends by plants and animals. Some members of the Red Sea fauna have passed right through the Canal to spread ...

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 ...