By ; Basel Khaled
Al-Qutban Ahmed Khalil, head of the Training and Simulation Center at Suez Canal Authority, said that on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Suez Canal celebration, which is considered one of the most important international shipping lanes from 1869 to 2019, the depth of the submarine was developed from 18 feet at the beginning of digging the canal. In which about one million Egyptians participated, to about 66 feet at the present time and at the depths level as well as the water surface of the canal has been developed where at the end of the eighties was created Port Said and alligator as well as Balah in addition to the Aldvrswar.
In 2015, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi inaugurated the new Suez Canal and we have two channels where we had one channel, since 1869, and now we have two channels to facilitate traffic in front of ships and thanks to this project, the transit time has now been reduced from 22 to 11 hours The number of ships passing daily increased from 40 to 45 to 60-65 on average.
Suez Canal revenues totaled $ 5.8 billion in FY2018-19 after Egyptians supported the canal expansion project by purchasing 64 billion Egyptian pounds ($ 5.4 million) of investment certificates within eight days.
