Europe boasts its own mini-Suez Canal, the Kiel Canal, which has been in operation for over a century and sees up to 130 ships daily. The 61-mile freshwater canal, located in the German state of ...

On November 17, 1869, the esteemed guests of Ismaʻil Pasha, Ottoman viceroy of Egypt, gathered on the Mediterranean coast for ...

In the early 1850s the French diplomat and engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805–1894) revived earlier French plans to build a canal through the Isthmus of Suez. He saw the immense ... and politicians ...

Efforts to free a container ship wedged diagonally across the Suez Canal have succeeded. The 400m (1300ft) Ever Given was stuck in the mud and sand right across the southern end of the canal since ...

About 12% of global trade passes through the Suez Canal, which connects the Mediterranean to the Red Sea and provides the shortest sea link between Asia and Europe. The Ever Given, registered in ...

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