الثلاثاء، 2 فبراير 2016

The importance of the Suez Canal


In the name of God and prayer and peace be upon the Messenger of Allah. After, The Suez Canal is an artificial canal linking the Mediterranean Sea, and the Gulf of Suez, which connects the Red Sea. This channel is located in the north-eastern side of Egypt, they are from the land of Egypt sentence. Suez Canal is an artificial isthmus separating the Egyptian territories, which are located in Asia, and the Egyptian territories, which are located in the continent of Africa. This channel is going through in several Egyptian provinces, namely: Port Said province bordering the Mediterranean Sea, and the province of Ismailia, Suez and counties bordering the Gulf of Suez, which connects the Red Sea. Digging of the Suez Canal operations began in the mid-nineteenth century, specifically in 1859, after conducting a number of studies and research on this great project, with the knowledge that the idea of ​​creating this channel were not the result of that period, but go back for centuries. And continued drilling operations for 10 years, where he worked more than 30 thousand workers to dig the channel, and most of the Egyptians. Has been completed excavated in 1869, it was inaugurated in the same year. The length of the Suez Canal, about 190 kilometers, with a depth of almost 24 meters. The display surface in the north, amounts to about 345 meters, while the bottom width of about 215 meters. In the south the surface amounts to about 280 m in width, while the bottom width of about 195 meters. The Suez Canal, a commercial and economic importance is very large, where thousands of ships pass each year, and the benefits of this channel it enabled ships coming from America, and Europe, to reach the Indian Ocean and the trend towards Asia the shortest ways. After digging this channel dispensed with such ships on the long road that was passing through it previously, a Cape of Good Hope, and therefore it may be provided by this new channel a lot of time and costs. The ships coming from Asia and the Arabian Peninsula benefited from this channel also, in the short cut to get to Europe, and America. And the Suez Canal great economic importance for Egypt, Valguenah does not belong to the private sector, but the Egyptian government-owned, and take advantage of its revenues, since those revenues that comes from them is considerable, Vairadadtha have achieved in 2013, the highest level in the history of the channel, which reported 37 billion pounds Egyptian; or approximately US $ 5 billion.

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