Comments on: Suez Canal: Important Waterways

By: job m thomas

job m thomas — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 06:07:14 +0000

it is so imformative for me. My doubt is that is the voyage is free of cost…

By: ali

ali — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 10:26:11 +0000

I’m wondering if Panama canal and Suez canal are same in length and which one was more difficult to build

By: Thustiha Perera

Thustiha Perera — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 04:15:31 +0000

what is the correct total length of the canal is 195 kilometers (121 miles) or as mention in this document

By: tanya the WRONG

tanya the WRONG — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 07:34:38 +0000

Wow Tonya, you are wrong on so many levels it’s not even funny.
Part of the canal was built by Necho II (610-595 BC).
After disrepair it was rebuilt and expanded by Darius I (522-486 BC).
Expanded to the red sea by Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285-246 BC).
Abandoned during the early Roman rule, but rebuilt again by Trajan (98-117 AD).
For centuries the canal was largely unused and fell to disrepair.
Until Napoleon Bonaparte set out with the first efforts to build a modern canal 1799, supervised by Charles Le Pere but work was eventually suspended.
A private company started excavation of the canal on April 25th, 1859, and between then and 1862, the first part of the modern canal was completed.
In 1863, work was again suspended until Napoleon III, the British and Turks worked out technical issues, and work was restarted.
On November 17 1869 the canal was finished and waters of the Mediterranean flowed into the Red Sea.
Total cost of building the canal was about $100 million, three times that sum was spent on later repairs and improvements.
Between the Suez Crisis and later wars, the canal was damaged extensively and was not operated for several year after 1967. However, on June 5th, 1975, the canal was again opened, and since then has been updated and enlarged.

By: tanya

tanya — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:29:20 +0000

well actually the suez canal was made because the ppl of egypt etc took long routes to get to europe and there was alot of piracy so the combined governmet decided to build the suez canal which took 25 yrs and 1.8000 billion dollars to make

By: sandip

sandip — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:37:19 +0000

I WANT OT KNOW HISTORY OF SUEZ CANEL