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the government Egyptian announces the next realization of a new navigation channel parallel to the Suez Canal
The new work will have a length of 72 kilometers and will cost about four billions of dollars
August 6, 2014
The plan of widening of the Suez Canal will realize in the realization of a new navigation channel parallel to the current one via of water Egyptian, one of the more important of the world, that it is opened by 145 years and that it connects the Mediterranean with the Red Sea extending itself for a total length of beyond 193 kilometers, of which 80,5 kilometers of navigation channel, from Port Said al Golfo of Suez.
They have announced yesterday the president Egyptian Adel Fattah to - the Sisi and the president of Suez Canal Authority, Moham Mamish, clarifying that the new channel will constitute the essential part of the project for which at the beginning of this year 14 consortia to the aim are selected to put into effect a contest for the drawing up of the project of development of the Suez Canal ( of 8 January 2014).
The new work will have a length of 72 kilometers, of which 35 kilometers of escavo of a new channel and participations of widening and dredging on 37 kilometers of the current channel, it will be realized in five years (but - it has specified Mamish - it could be completed over single three years) and will cost about four billions of dollars.
According to how much which announced from the Prime Minister Egyptian Ibrahim Mahlab, the project could be under way between six months, even if - it has specified - it is still in phase of planning.
The execution of the work would among other things allow to vice versa realize a continuous flow of ships between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean and abandoning the current system of convoys that previews the transit in the Suez Canal of a convoy directed from south to north constituted from two groups of ships (to which a third party can some be added on the base of the situation of the marine traffic) and of two it convey directed from north to south, the first format from three groups of ships and the second constituted on the base of the situation of the traffic and the temporal limits of transit.
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The plan of widening of the Suez Canal will realize in the realization of a new navigation channel parallel to the current one via of water Egyptian, one of the more important of the world, that it is opened by 145 years and that it connects the Mediterranean with the Red Sea extending itself for a total length of beyond 193 kilometers, of which 80,5 kilometers of navigation channel, from Port Said al Golfo of Suez.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
