Except for cruise ships and LNG carriers, the Suez Canal Authority will raise tolls by 6% next year. The new fees will be implemented beginning in February.
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Egypt’s authorities have planned to widen and deepen the southern section of the Suez Canal, where the Ever Given containership ran aground and blocked the waterway for six days in March of this year.
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The engineering works in this project include a 10-kilometer extension of the waterway’s second lane, which opened in 2015, bringing the canal’s double-lane stretch to 82 kilometres.
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