The Suez Is In Need of an Upgrade

[bobabode]

Recent events with a jumbo sized container ship lodging itself sideways and blocking the canal makes me wonder why in 100 years of existence no one thought to dig a twin canal?

[BlueStreak]

Beats me. Maybe because that dump has been at war for much of those 100 years?

[donquixote99]

One canal has huge value, compared to no canal. A second canal has only incremental value, compared to one canal. The cost/benefit ratio is totally different. Until the one canal gets blocked. But that's only a hypothetical case....

[barbara]

I bet the guy driving the ship at the time doesn't still have a job.

[Dondilion]

I believe that a ship in the canal is under the control of tug boats.

[Dondilion]

The application of nuclear icebreakers and the effects of climate change will eventually make the Arctic route to Europe from the East a practical one, thus easing the traffic through Suez.