Article: Panel highlights Egypt's focus on infrastructure spending.

Article: Suez Canal is raking in the revenues: before the US ...
The Middle East;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...THE SUEZ CANAL IS IN THE MIDST OF booming volumes ... cargo bound for Iraq. Last year, the Suez Canal generated $2.57bn in revenues ... Shipping Co (UASC). "I think the Suez Canal is doing pretty well," he told The ...

Article: The Suez Canal, 140 years on.
Daily News Egypt (Egypt);  July 24, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Ten years and 163 km later, the Suez Canal was complete; an artificial waterway ... Aa In November 17, 1869, the Suez Canal was officially inaugurated by Khedive Ismail in a lavish ceremony. The Suez Canal Company -- in charge of constructing ...

Article: EGYPT: Suez Canal is raking in the revenues
Middle East;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... invasion of Iraq last year, Egypt's Suez Canal Authority predicted that a fully-fledged ... has happened. By Larry Luxner. THE SUEZ CANAL IS IN THE MIDST OF booming volumes ... cargo bound for Iraq. East year, the Suez Canal generated $2.57bn in revenues - the ...

Article: Crisis takes toll on Suez Canal revenues.
Daily News Egypt (Egypt);  February 16, 2009 ;     700+ words ...CAIRO: Suez Canal revenues fell 20 percent to $332 ... Investment bank EFG-Hermes expects Suez Canal revenues to slip 10 percent in the current ... the Cape of Good Hope instead of the Suez Canal because its transit tolls are not that ...

Article: Suez Canal
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ...Suez Canal Arab. Qanat as Suways, waterway of ... management was placed in the hands of the Suez Canal Company. Under the Anglo-Egyptian ... Nasser nationalized (July, 1956) the Suez Canal and set up the Egyptian Canal Authority ...

Article: Piracy may mean less traffic for Suez Canal.
Daily News Egypt (Egypt);  November 24, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... especially those benefiting from the Red Sea-Suez Canal maritime route, are scrambling to find ... course, is on top of that list. The Suez Canal could see its traffic dwindle as vessels ... Sea and linking Asia to Europe, the Suez Canal is often used by oil shipping vessels ...

Article: Egypt maintains Suez Canal transit fees
Xinhua News Agency;  January 5, 2009 ;     410 words ...Egypt maintains Suez Canal transit fees CAIRO, Jan. 5 (Xinhua ... of ships and tankers crossing the Suez Canal unchanged, the state MENA news agency ... Admiral Ahmed Ali Fadel, chief of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) , made the announcement ...