suez canal

The South African port of Durban has started an excavation project to triple its capacity to handle large container ships, encouraging more vessels to sail

Shipping corridors used by Gulf energy exporters are not at risk from violence and political volatility in Yemen and the seizure of swathes of territory in the

The captain and first officer of a Kuwaiti container ship have been detained for four days after their ship collided with a fishing vessel in the Red Sea,

The consultant on a project to develop the Suez Canal says cumbersome Egyptian government bureaucracy could hamper its chances of

HERZLIYA, Israel, Nov 26 (Reuters) – Some surprising traffic passes through the Suez Canal each day. Beneath the decks of the giant cargo ships that flow

Boskalis, Van Oord and Jan de Nul aren’t the only the only ones who will be sucking vast quantities of mud from the Suez Canal over the next few

The Egyptian postal service had the best intentions when issuing a series of stamps to commemorate the Suez Canal and its multi-billion expansion project, only

Egypt has chosen a consortium that includes the Egyptian army and global engineering firm Dar al-Handasah to develop an international industrial and logistics

Egypt is pressing ahead with plans to develop a new wheat storage facility and expand port operations at two terminals in the Suez area as the country looks to

CAIRO, May 14 (Reuters) – Fifteen tonnes of a material used to make explosives have been seized in a town straddling the Suez Canal, the Egyptian army

An Egyptian court handed down death sentences to all but one of the 26 perpetrators involved in an alleged scheme to form a terrorist group and to attack the

A new video has surfaced on youtube showing, allegedly, the recent attack on the COSCO Asia containership in the Suez

An attack by assailants on a container ship in the Suez canal has heightened risks for merchant shipping using the vital waterway, with further threats

Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) — Egyptian authorities moved to bolster security along the Suez Canal after a foiled attack on a ship traversing the waterway that

Egypt has arrested three people who opened fire with machine guns on a ship passing through the Suez Canal, an army source said on Sunday, playing down what

A "terrorist" staged an unsuccessful attack on a container ship passing through the Suez Canal on Saturday, in an attempt to disrupt the flow of ships through

Update: 30 August Maersk Lines’s containership, Maersk Kampala is still on fire this morning according to a statement on Maersk Line’s website. The

While the sizzling summer months are coming to a close and cooler weather is beginning to set in in the North East United States, political tension in the

Over 17,000 ships carried 928 million tons of cargo and almost 38 million TEUs through the Suez Canal in 2012.  This man-made waterway is a critical artery in

Rates to ship liquefied natural gas and petroleum products would jump if turmoil in Egypt disrupts the Suez Canal, extending the historical effect on crude-oil