French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps completes work on the Suez Canal in Egypt. The canal allows a direct line of transportation ... January 7, 1914 The French crane boat Alexandre La Valley ...
The multi-billion pound Route of Development is set to run across the length of Iraq, stretching 745 miles from the northern ...
Efforts to free a container ship wedged diagonally across the Suez Canal have succeeded ... The combination of the tug boats and dredging equipment dislodged the ship. If these had failed ...
Egypt's Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said it was doing all it could to refloat the ship with tug boats, dredgers and heavy earth-moving equipment. Kitack Lim, secretary general of the International ...