Egypt starts dredging works to expand southern entrance of Suez Canal
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/103957/Egypt-starts-dredging-works-to-expand-southern-entrance-of-Suez16 May 2021
Egypt started on Saturday the dredging work to expand the southern entrance of the Suez Canal few weeks after the accident of the Panama-flagged Ever Given ship that went aground in the southern entrance and caused the suspension of the world trade shipping through the canal for six days.
The Suez Canal Authority said in a statement that two dredgers (the 10th of Ramadan Dredger and Mashhur dredgers) have been used in the expansion works at 122 kilometers of the Suez Canal.
In his speech at an inauguration ceremony for a number of projects affiliated to the Suez Canal Authority on May 11, Chairman of Suez Canal Authority Admiral Osama Rabie highlighted digging parallel passages from the 132nd kilometer to the 162nd kilometer lying in the southern section of the international waterway near the Suez Gulf, and from the 122nd kilometer to the 132nd kilometer located in the Bitter Lakes. The parallel passages will be on the western side of the Canal....