SCCT to buy more cranes
NewsEgypt’s Suez Canal Container Terminal (SCCT), located in East Port Said, is to take delivery of four more super post-Panamax STS cranes as...
New Suez Canal opened
NewsYesterday saw Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi formally open the new 72 km Suez Canal channel....
New Suez Canal funding/feasibility criticised
NewsThe Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has come in for sharp criticism over funding and feasibility issues for its new canal which opens later today...
East Port Said “side-channel” to be built
NewsThis Thursday’s opening of the new Suez Canal is likely to be accompanied by an announcement that a new side-channel to the canal’s Medi...
New chapter for Suez Canal
NewsThe opening of the expanded Suez Canal is the first stage in a major plan to double ship transits and create a maritime services, industrial...
The battle for Asia/ US East Coast trade
NewsThe past two years have seen the Suez Canal handle a much larger slice of the expanding all-water Asia/US east coast trade, and this at the ...
Suez expansion completed
NewsThe first container ships have passed through the enlarged Suez Canal as part of final trials on the project, which now allows two way traff...
Suez Canal Axis to open in August
NewsThe Suez Canal will be capable of accommodating more ships from August when a new channel is opened and dredging on an existing stretch of ...
Matching the old with the new in Egypt
NewsNew investment has been put into Egypt’s established ports, such as Alexandria, but the biggest development in the country’s port sector...
Mixing the new and the old in Egypt
NewsDuring the 1990s, Egypt’s ports were operating at almost maximum capacity and the government faced a stark choice: build new ones or rapid...
Suez alliance
NewsThe Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (NY/NJ) and the Port Authority of Genoa (APG) have agreed to work together to promote all-wate...