Chinese state-owned firms Beijing Capital Group Co., China State Construction Engineering Corp. and Guangdong Holdings Ltd. are among bidders for Suez SA’s Chinese water infrastructure assets, ...

The Panama Canal is one of the greatest engineering marvels in human history, forever altering the course of maritime trade and reshaping global navigation. Located in the narrow Isthmus of Panama, ...

Deep in the Guangxi region of southern China, construction is underway on the Pinglu Canal, a colossal $10 billion infrastructure push that Beijing sees as part of a broader ambition: building a ...

In 1854, French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps pushed forward the construction of the modern Suez Canal, which officially opened in 1869 after years of construction with thousands of workers, many ...

The Canal du Midi includes 91 locks, a series of tunnels, and the world’s first canal bridge, the Pont-Canal de Répudre. Construction began in 1666 and required the labor of approximately ...

The idea for a canal between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea was a long time in the making. The ancients must have talked about it. And Napoleon Bonaparte, who invaded Egypt in 1798, dreamed about ...

It was French diplomat and engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps, whose efforts to win over the support of the Egyptian viceroy Sai’id Pasha for support for the canal’s construction that eventually bore fruit ...

But de Lesseps was certainly not the first to imagine a canal linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas—and, by extension, Europe and Asia—through the Isthmus of Suez.

GK Quiz on Suez Canal The Suez Canal, a crucial maritime route, connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. Opened in 1869, it transformed global shipping. This quiz explores its history ...

THE thin hundred-mile ribbon of water connecting the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, now in the limelight as an Italian military road to Ethiopia, has had a confusing history. It was dreamed of for ...

The CWGC has ordered an extension to the Loos British Cemetery in Pas-de-Calais to provide space for up to 1,200 bodies, including those found during canal-related excavations. Arcadis France ...