Suez Canal
Suez Bottleneck May Cause New Toilet Paper Crisis
A megaship blocking the Suez Canal may cause a new toilet paper crisis, it is claimed.
It comes just a year after UK supermarket shelves were stripped of toilet roll in a frenzy of panic buying just before the first lockdown.
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Turkey offers help to resolve Suez Canal blockage
Turkey offered Egypt to send the Nene Hatun vessel to help its operations in reopening the Suez Canal after a massive container ship ran aground, Transport Minister Adil Karaismailoğlu told private broadcaster NTV on March 26.
"We have offered help, and we'll send aid if they come with a positive response," he said.
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Global Oil Shipments Depend On Major Chokepoints (infographic)
A massive container ship remains wedged in the Suez Canal
Huge Container Ship Blocks Suez Canal, Causes Worst Shipping Jam in Years
A container ship blocking the Suez Canal like a "beached whale" sent new shockwaves through global trade on Thursday as officials stopped all ships entering the channel and the salvage company said it may take weeks to free.
Stuck ship in Egypt’s Suez Canal imperils shipping worldwide
A skyscraper-sized cargo ship wedged across Egypt's Suez Canal further imperiled global shipping on March 25 as at least 150 other vessels needing to pass through the crucial waterway idled waiting for the obstruction to clear, authorities said.
Massive cargo ship turns sideways, blocks Egypt’s Suez Canal
A cargo container ship that's among the largest in the world has turned sideways and blocked all traffic in Egypt's Suez Canal, officials said on March 24, threatening to disrupt a global shipping system already strained by the coronavirus pandemic.
Greek team digitizing ancient Christian manuscripts at Sinai monastery
At St. Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Egypt's Mount Sinai, the silence in the library is broken only by low electrical humming, as an early manuscript is bathed in green light.
Egypt, France begin war games in Red Sea
A container ship crosses the Gulf of Suez towards the Red Sea, before entering the Suez Canal, as fishermen work on their nets, near Ismailia port city, northeast of Cairo, Egypt on Oct. 31. (REUTERS / Amr Abdallah Dalsh)
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Russia, Egypt resume direct flights two years after attack
Russia and Egypt are to resume direct flights on April 11 following a more than two-year hiatus after a bomb downed a Russian charter over the Sinai peninsula in 2015.
Egypt mourns more than 300 killed in mosque attack
Egypt mourns as the death toll from a gun and bomb assault on a mosque in the Sinai Peninsula soared above 300 on Nov. 25, including children, in the deadliest attack the country has witnessed.
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