Fire breaks out at Suez Canal container terminal

MAY 3, 2016 — Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) is reporting that a fire broke out in the early hours of Tuesday morning, May 3, at the Suez Canal Container Terminal, Egypt, following

New Suez Canal inaugurated in elaborate ceremony

AUGUST 6, 2015—In an elaborate ceremony featuring a naval flotilla and fighter jets, as well as a host of foreign dignitaries, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi today inaugurated the New Suez Canal.

Tight security for first ships to transit expanded Suez

JULY 27, 2015 — There was tight security as trial convoys of ships in both directions passed through the expanded Suez Canal for the first time on Saturday, July 25. The canal

GLDD gets a slice of the Suez pie

OCTOBER 21, 2014 — Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (NASDAQ:GLDD) reports that the Suez Canal Authority Chairman Mohab Mohamed Hussein Mamish has signed a $540 million contract with a consortium consisting

Consortium wins Suez Canal expansion contract

OCTOBER 19, 2014—A consortium consisting of Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V., Van Oord, NMDC (Abu Dhabi) and Jan de Nul (Belgium) has been awarded a $1.5 billion contract by the Suez Canal Authority in

Egypt Suez Canal stamp shows wrong canal

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016 — Egyptian postal authorities have made a classic stamp design blunder. A new stamp commemorating the Suez Canal contains an image of — the Panama Canal. It’s not the

Cigarette demands cause Suez incidents

MARCH 31, 2014 — Vessels transiting the Suez Canal may find that passage is easier with the assistance of a few packs of Camels. Some Suez Canal employees haven’t gotten the message

New Suez toll hikes will make Cape an attractive alternative

FEBRUARY 4, 2013 — Peter Hinchliffe, Secretary General of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), is warning that new Suez Canal rate hikes will make more shipowners look at the Cape route