Talk:Suez Canal

Blocking and diversion 2021

Initial reports on the containership blocking the canal on March 24th 2021 did mention traffic being divertet to an "old canal". 'The Canal allegedly works on reopening old canals for tempoary use' (danish national news)

To my knowledge there is no "old canal" - the same canal has been deepened and possible straightened. And from 2015 supplemented by a new parallel canal on the central part of the stretch. But I'm open to enlightenment. Poul G (talk) 07:22, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

I think many of the sources are confused about this. They may be thinking about the second canal north of Bitter Lake that was completed in 2015 (which obviously doesn't help in this case). Or maybe the 2000 year old Ptolemy canal. But there is no "old canal" that can be re-opened. GA-RT-22 (talk) 15:18, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

This is possibly a misleading statement: "Shipping companies were also considering whether to divert their ships along...the Cape of Good Hope. The first container ship to do so was Ever Given's sister ship, Ever Greet.[105]" Ever Greet has diverted around the Cape, however this is likely to have been unrelated to avoiding a potential delay and so not indicative of what other ships might have done. The Ever Given has been impounded until liability has been decided. It's likely that Ever Green saw this coming and chose not to risk another of their ships being impounded. The route other Ever Green ships take in the future could settle this. 77.100.127.121 (talk) 17:29, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Panama canal in economic activities

Explain this 2405:204:A406:9B25:43AB:29E4:7877:6D84 (talk) 12:47, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

New section 'Obstructions'?

Would it be advisable to create a new section entitled 'Obstructions', or perhaps a subsection under the section 'History', and include the multiple obstructions including the most recent one (Affinity V)? Compusolus (talk) 01:39, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Digital Microhistory Lab

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Timeline section

A lot of the timeline section is already covered in the history, and acts as a trivia list. I'm going to make a start with removing duplicated facts, integrating anything that's relevant and removing anything too tangential. Timtjtim (talk) 11:39, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Okay, I've cut out things that are already part of the history, and I've moved the the three incidents to a new section.

The remaining two trivia items are:

• 10 January 1950: Passenger tariffs are abolished.
• 1 January 2008: New rules of navigation passed by the Suez Canal Authority came into force together with an increase of fees for transit of about 7.1%.

Neither of these seem especially important to me - I certainly wouldn't want us to start keeping track of every price increase! I think I'm going to remove these. Timtjtim (talk) 12:25, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Oh - the latter is part of Navigation anyway Timtjtim (talk) 12:40, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Red Sea crisis

Hello, this article doesn't mention the current Red Sea crisis, please add information about it. 190.99.107.218 (talk) 13:13, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Feel free to! Editors are always encouraged to be WP:BOLD! I'll note that the Suez Canal is only tangentially related to the crisis, so I don't think there's a huge amount to add! Timtjtim (talk) 17:31, 19 February 2024 (UTC)