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thackney:
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-Suez
16 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....

thackney:
Egypt Approves Plan to Expand Southern Suez Canal
https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/egypt-approves-plan-to-expand-southern-suez-canal

...To safeguard the competitive position of the Suez Canal, SCA intends to widen the canal’s southern stretch by about 40 meters to the east on the side of the Sinai Peninsula. The segment would also be deepened to 72 feet from the current 66 feet in depth.

The project, which will be implemented over the next 24 months, also includes a five nautical mile extension of a second lane of the waterway that opened in 2015. That would bring the double-lane stretch of the canal to 44 nm, allowing more vessels to pass through the canal....

PeteS in CA:
"Competitive position"? Against rounding the Cape of Good Hope?

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