The city is Port Said, which is an Egyptian city at the northern end of the Suez Canal, on the Mediterranean Sea. From the Suez Canal, shipping would enter the Red Sea.

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Holland and England sponsored an English sea captain to find a route in Asia from the northern sea. The captain was Henry Hudson.

Carrying cargo by ship was faster, easier, cheaper and less dangerous than carrying it by land.

Norway, from the Old Norse norovegr, meaning 'the northern route' (the way northwards).