The proposed route map for the canal includes the central Gaza Strip. It will start in Gaza and join the Gulf of Aqaba.

Egypt’s Suez Canal has seen its revenues nosedive by more than 60 percent in 2024 compared to the previous year, amounting to a staggering $7 billion loss, according to a statement released on ...

A test of a new 10 kilometer channel that extends the stretch of the Suez Canal allowing two-way ship traffic has been deemed successful, as Egypt looks to expand the canal three years after ... at ...

The new extension is set to boost the canal's capacity by six to eight vessels a day, Rabie said, and it will open after new navigational maps are issued. In 2015, Egypt undertook an $8-billion ...

This animated satellite map shows the Red Sea highlighted in red, with the Mandab Strait and Suez Canal visible. The Red Sea is bordered by several countries, including Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt, and ...

IDF fighters in the agricultural buffer zone on the Egyptian side of the Suez Canal ... across the border with Israel. Also, despite IDF reports to the contrary, Egypt maintains more than a ...

CAIRO: Egypt has tested a new 10-kilometre (6.2-mile) extension to the Suez ... maps are issued, he said. In 2021, giant container ship Ever Given became wedged diagonally in the canal, blocking ...

Egypt has tested a new 10-kilometre extension to the Suez Canal. This aims to minimize the impact of currents on shipping and increase capacity. Two ships used the extension already. The new extension ...

Egypt said on Saturday it had successfully tested a new 10 km channel near the southern end of the Suez Canal, even as its revenue from the waterway has plunged since Yemen’s Houthi militants began ...