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the new channel of access to the port of Port Saïd
Is along 9,5 kilometers, wide 250 meters and has a depth of the -18,5 backdrop meters
February 24, 2016
Today the Prime Minister Egyptian, Sherif Ismail, and the president and managing director of Suez Canal Authority, Mohab Mameesh, have inaugurated the new navigation channel of access to the area oriental of the port of Port Saïd, that he is situated to the outlet on the Mediterranean of the Suez Canal.
the new via of water is long 9,5 kilometers, wide 250 meters and anticipates a depth of the -18,5 backdrop meters. The dredging intense activities are executed in single three months from the consortium constituted from the Belgian Dredging International (DEME) and from the American Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. (GLDD) and have cost 37 million dollars.
the new infrastructural work is realized in order to facilitate the income and the escape from the area oriental of the port Egyptian to the ships of great dimensions and draught, than up to now the limited depth of the backdrop of the main channel of access could not climb to Port Saïd because of that is inferior to the 14 meters. The objective of the plan was that to double the ability to the harbour port of call.
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Today the Prime Minister Egyptian, Sherif Ismail, and the president and managing director of Suez Canal Authority, Mohab Mameesh, have inaugurated the new navigation channel of access to the area oriental of the port of Port Saïd, that he is situated to the outlet on the Mediterranean of the Suez Canal.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
