How the Suez Canal Was Built

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最近苏伊士运河上的的搁浅货轮闹得可是沸沸扬扬,可单单一艘货轮搁浅是不足以让媒体如此重视的,那么究竟是为何世界各国的媒体都对此事从始至终保持如此高的关注度呢?这就不得不提到苏伊士运河了,要说起这条运河它可不简单,它诞生于鲜血与硝烟之中,带着十分沉重的历史意义与无可替代的地理价值,甚至被人们赋予了一个惊人的称号——帝国咽喉。

World trade is a big business.

I mean yeah, it pretty much is the economy after all and thus situating yourself near a chokepoint between two major bodies of water (à la Singapore) can be a godsend to an area's local economy.

However if I were to ask most people which is the most important waterway in the world, sure some would answer the Straights of Malacca or the South China Sea, but for most it would be a toss-up between the Panama and Suez Canals.

So in this video, we will go to be focus on the history and construction of the Suez Canal, the bigger and also much older of the two.

Like, much older.

The Suez Canal, as it currently exists, is a 193-kilometer artificial waterway connecting the Mediterranean Sea at Port Said to the Red Sea at Port Tewfik.

This waterway connects the Atlantic and Indian Oceans in a way that doesn't require a ship heading between Europe and Asia either go around Africa or. . . wait for the ice to melt in the Arctic.

The canal also, unlike the Panama Canal, has no locks at all, making it much easier for some of the world's ships to slip right through and for the canal to be expanded, should the Egyptian government prioritize such a project.

This makes this little waterway between Africa and Asia one of the most revolutionary projects in the transportation world.

With this canal, a ship traveling from (for example) Port Sudan to Antalya, Turkey would only have to travel about 2,000 kilometers, without the canal going to Africa, this distance would be nearly 23,000 kilometers, meaning that by Port Sudan it would be a shorter distance by boat to Samoa.

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