The Suez Canal has a minimum width of 205 meters (673 feet), and so modern U.S. aircraft carriers can fit through, as the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower recently did in 2021.

President Trump said Saturday that American commercial and military ships should not have to pay to travel through the Panama Canal and Suez Canal. “American Ships, both Military and Commercial ...

Revenue from the Suez Canal is a major source of income for Egypt, which is already in the midst of a financial crisis. (Israel will be less affected, with only about 5% of its trade passing ...

Trade through the Panama Canal, the second-busiest man-made shipping lane, has also dipped by 30% since November. But while the Suez’s problems are geopolitical, those in Panama are climatic.

Egypt's Suez Canal Economic Zone on Tuesday signed a $2.6 billion contract to build a methanol plant at Egypt's Ain Sokhna port and industrial complex, it said in a statement.

An Iranian-backed group is attacking an essential shipping route through the Suez Canal. The U.S. will have to step in. By Juliette Kayyem Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters / Redux December 24, 2023 ...