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the new Suez Canal is crossed by the first ships
Saturdays three portacontainer are journeyed experimentally
July 27, 2015
Saturdays three portacontainer have crossed the new Suez Canal that will be inaugurated next 6 officially August. The transits from south to north of the three ships are carried out in order to experiment, under the surveillance of the attache's of Suez Canal Authority, the navigability of the new via of water that almost is finished being completed to 99.4% the dredging activities.
The first ship to pass for the new channel has been the APL Southampton, portacontenitori of flag of Singapore of the company APL that has an ability to 10.800 teu and a gross capacity of 131.000 tons.
Commenting the positive outcome of the tests of transit in the new channel, the president of Suez Canal Authority, Mohab Mameesh, it has emphasized that now the channel Egyptian has two lanes of transit and has announced that the navigability tests will continue in the next few days. Mameesh has moreover confirmed that the realization of the new channel has involved costs pairs to about four billions of dollars. Thanks to the new work the transits in the Suez Canal will be able to double going up from an average of 49 ships to 97.
The work of realization of the new channel Egyptian is executed by a consortium constituted from the Dutch Van Oord and Royal Boskalis Westminster, from emiratina NMDC (Abu Dhabi) and from the Belgian Jan de Nul ( on 20 October 2014).
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