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The Suez Canal (/ ˈ s uː. ɛ z /; Arabic: قَنَاةُ ٱلسُّوَيْسِ, Qanāt as-Suwais) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia (and by extension, the Sinai Peninsula from the rest of Egypt).
Joseph Liard, Canal du Rhône au Rhin; Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894), Suez Canal and the failed first attempt at a canal in Panama; Louis de Règemortes, Canal de l'Ourcq, Canal de Saint-Quentin; Pierre-Paul Riquet (1609-1680), Canal du Midi, Canal de l'Ourcq; Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, Canal de Bourbourg; See also, List of canals in ...
Ferdinand Marie, Comte de Lesseps (French: [də lesɛps]; 19 November 1805 – 7 December 1894) was a French diplomat and later developer of the Suez Canal, which in 1869 joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas, substantially reducing sailing distances and times between Europe and East Asia.
He planned a sea-level canal, like Suez. The proposed canal would have a uniform depth of 9 meters (29.5 ft), a bottom width of 22 meters (72.2 ft) and a width at water level of about 27.5 meters (90.2 ft); the excavation estimate was 120,000,000 m 3 (157,000,000 cu yd). Despite his previous success, de Lesseps was not an engineer.
The Suez Company or Suez Canal Company, full initial name Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez (Universal Company of the Maritime Canal of Suez), [1] sometimes colloquially referred to in French as Le Suez ("The Suez"), [2] [3] was a company formed by Ferdinand de Lesseps in 1858 to operate the Egyptian granted concession of the Suez Canal, which the company built between 1859 and 1869.
Because canal tolls have risen as ships have become larger, some critics [124] have suggested that the Suez Canal is now a viable alternative for cargo between Asia and the US East Coast. [125] The Panama Canal, however, continues to serve more than 144 of the world's trade routes and the majority of canal traffic comes from the "all-water ...
Engineers on Monday “partially refloated” the colossal container ship that continues to block traffic through the Suez Canal, a canal services firm said.
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