Suez Canal is a waterway artificial duplication traffic in Egypt, with a length of 193 km and up between Bahrain white, red and divided longitudinally into two sections north and south of time Lakes, and incidental to the two-lane in most parts to allow the passage of ships in two directions at the same time between both Europe and Asia, The fastest sea lane between the two continents and provide about 15 days on average from the time of the trip via the Cape of Good Hope.
The idea of the establishment of the channel with the arrival of the French campaign on Egypt in 1798, and the thought of Napoleon in the incision channel, but the idea failed, and in 1854 was able to de Lesseps persuade the Khedive Said project and got the Porte approval, which the Khedive Saeed hereby grant the French company a concession for a period of 99 year. Construction of the canal took 10 years (1859-1869) and contributed to the drilling nearly a million Egyptian workers process, of whom died more than 120 thousand during the drilling process, following hunger, thirst, epidemics and ill-treatment. Canal was opened in 1869 in a solemn ceremony and a huge budget. In 1905 the French company tried to extend the franchise an additional 50 years, however, it failed again later. In July 1956, President Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, which caused Britain and France with the participation of Israel's declaration of war on Egypt within the tripartite aggression which ended their withdrawal.
1967 caused the closure of the Suez Canal for more than 8 years, until President Sadat re-opened in June 1975 and has seen the channel then attempts to expand it began in 1980, as well as converted to the idea of logistics services area. On August 6, 2015 was the opening of a parallel channel current navigational the Lamar project 72 km, to enable ships and tankers from crossing the Channel in both directions at the same time length, and to avoid the current problems of the stopped convoy north for more than 11 hours in the Bitter Lakes region, and reduce the time to cross the trip channel in general, which contributes to increase current revenues of the Suez Canal Guenah.tad one of the most important marine sewage in the world, where the channel revenues in the fiscal year (2014 - 2015) about 39 billion Egyptian pounds. And pass through the channel between 8% to 12% of the volume of world trade
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