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Suez Canal
The Suez Canal is located in Egypt and extends from the Mediterranean Sea in the northern side of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the Red Sea in the south, and it forms the link between Bahrain, which facilitates the transportation of ships and ships more quickly between the continent of Europe and the continent of Asia, so that the journey from Europe to Asia via a channel Suez is 15 days less than the trip through the Good Hope Road.
History of the Suez Canal
The idea of digging the Suez Canal appeared after the French occuAl Bahahn of Egypt in 1798 AD, and Napoleon Bonaparte was the first to think about digging the canal, but it did not succeed in its implementation, and during the era of Khedive Said Delsbes was able to persuade the Khedive to dig the channel and the benefit that would bring it to Egypt, and thus got France to agree to build the Suez Canal with the enjoyment of the concession rights for 99 years, it took about ten years to dig the Suez Canal, more than a million workers digged from Egypt and 1,200,000 of them died due to the difficult work conditions they were exposed to during the digging of hunger, thirst, and disease And the spread of diseases and epidemics.
It took ten years to dig the Suez Canal and officially opened to ships and ships in 1869 AD. After the end of the concession period, the company tried to renew the concession for another 50 years, but President Gamal Abdel Nasser refused this and nationalized the Suez Canal, which prompted Britain and France to fight the war against Egypt in cooperation with Israel , Which was known as triple aggression.
As a result of the 1967 war, the Suez Canal was closed and suspended from work for about 8 years, until Egyptian President Sadat re-opened it in 1975 AD, and in August of 2015, the project to expand the Suez Canal was started by digging a neighboring channel that contributes to the movement Faster and non-stop ships, which increases the country’s revenues from the old and new canal, as the annual revenue of this channel is 39 billion Egyptian pounds.
Entrances to the Suez Canal
Entrances to the Suez Canal:
- Suez Gulf: It is the western port to the north of the Red Sea, and it is located near the city of Suez which is named after it, and from this bay ships coming from the Red Sea cross the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean.
- Bab al-Mandab strait: It is one of the most important waterways in the world, as it forms the point of contact between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, and its importance is distinguished as the main crossing for oil-carrying vessels to the Suez Canal.
