Suez canal revenues will fall in Iraq war

PORT SAID, EGYPT
Middle East Times

Revenues from shipping through the Suez Canal, which reached 1.9 billion dollars in 2002, will fall by 10 percent in the event of a US-led war against Iraq, the head of the canal authority said Saturday.

"A war against Iraq ... will result in a drop of canal revenues by 10 percent, in the initial period," Ahmed ......
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