Suez Canal: Widening projects to prevent a new… traffic confucius

The Traffic “heart attack” caused a few weeks ago in the world navigation wants to avoid Suez Canal.

For this reason, the canal widening works will start soon, so that what happened last March, when the Ever Given, A container ship “stuck” for six days in the Suez Canal, causing huge disruption and problems in global navigation.

So as the CNN, In an effort to prevent such an accident, the Suez Canal Authority announced that work would soon begin on widening and deepening the southern part of the canal, at the exact spot blocked by Ever Given.

According to the plan, this area will grow by 40 meters to the west and its depth will reach 22 meters from the current 20.

“Ever Given was struggling to sail because of its high speed and rudder size. “He could have chosen not to enter the waterway under bad weather,” said Osa Rabbi, head of the Canal Authority. Reuters.

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