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the president Egyptian To - Sisi has inaugurated the doubling of the Suez Canal
The ceremony has held on board of the yacht To - the Mahrousa, the first floating one to cross the water way on November 17, 1869
August 6, 2015
Today the president Egyptian Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has inaugurated the new Suez Canal, work created in the course less than 12 months with the dredging of beyond 250 million cubic metres of sands and materials in order to altogether realize a way of long water about 35 kilometers and of the depth until -24 meters that parallel to the current channel runs. The new draft will allow the doubling of the marine traffic between the Red Sea and Mare Mediterraneo. The every day medium traffic will go up in fact to 97 ships previewed in 2023 regarding current the 49.
The inauguration has happened with a held ceremony on board of the historical real yacht To - the Mahrousa, constructed in 1863 in England from the Samuda Brothers, that it had crossed the Suez Canal overhead to the first journeyed naval convoy in occasion of its inauguration on November 17, 1869.
In the last century the channel Egyptian has become gradually more and more important for the development of the marine traffics between Europe and Asia, but also between the Asian continent and the North American ports of the Atlantic coast, importance that has become obvious to all when the Suez Canal is closed after the war of the "6 days" Israel-Egypt and is reopened only on June 5, 1975.
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Today the president Egyptian Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has inaugurated the new Suez Canal, work created in the course less than 12 months with the dredging of beyond 250 million cubic metres of sands and materials in order to altogether realize a way of long water about 35 kilometers and of the depth until -24 meters that parallel to the current channel runs. The new draft will allow the doubling of the marine traffic between the Red Sea and Mare Mediterraneo. The every day medium traffic will go up in fact to 97 ships previewed in 2023 regarding current the 49.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
