[Ynet] Egypt's New Suez Canal will open on August 6, the canal authority chairman said on Saturday.
Mohab Mameesh, Chairman and Managing Director of the Suez Canal Authority, also said that the digging and dredging works would conclude on July 15. The new canal will run alongside the existing 145-year-old waterway, part of a multi-billion-dollar project to expand trade along the fastest shipping route between Europe and Asia.
| Wiki has a decent, if bland, summary of the project. Originally supposed to take six years (American time, or 60 years Egyptian time), Sisi ordered the project to be done in 1 year (I think that's Chinese time). It started in 2014 and is financed entirely by the Egyptians, who are hiring out the heavy work to furriners. There have been a few, ah, problems along the way. Who would have guessed... |
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