To finance the massive and unprecedented engineering project, de Lesseps and the Suez Canal Company courted foreign investors, chiefly from Western Europe. Construction began in 1859, ...

Construction began on 25 April 1859 and the canal was opened in November 1869 complete with a statue of de Lesseps dominating the harbour. Said, who died in 1867, was succeeded by his nephew Ismail.

__1859: __Egyptian workers under French engineers begin construction of the Suez Canal. The canal was not the first to link the Mediterranean and Red seas. Egyptian pharaohs, Persian kings and ...

UAE-based National Marine Dredging Company has won a $272 million contract for dredging a section of the Suez Canal where the container ship Ever Given ran aground more than a year ago.

Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A view of the construction site of a new container terminal of Ain Sokhna Port in Ain Sokhna, Suez Province, Egypt May 30, 2024.

To finance the massive and unprecedented engineering project, de Lesseps and the Suez Canal Company courted foreign investors, chiefly from Western Europe. Construction began in 1859, ...