Suez canal revenues will fall in Iraq war
PORT SAID, EGYPT
Middle East Times
Revenues from shipping through the Suez Canal, which reached 1.9
billion dollars in 2002, will fall by 10 percent in the event
of a US-led war against Iraq, the head of the canal authority
said Saturday.
"A war against Iraq ... will result in a drop of canal revenues
by 10 percent, in the initial period," Ahmed
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