Suez Canal

an impervious layer is provided at the bed and sides of canal to improve the life and discharge capacity of canal known as canal lining.
The canal lining is something that provides a barrier to the surface of a canal on the bed and sides that improves the canal. It is a man made layer that helps make the canal last longer and improves the waterflow.

Supported by Soviet arms and money, and furious with the United States for reneging on a promise to provide funds for construction of the Aswan Dam on the Nile River, Nasser ordered the Suez Canal seized and nationalized, arguing tolls from the ships passing through the canal would pay for the Dam.

When the Egyptian Khedive went bankrupt in 1875, Disraeli bought almost half of the total shares in the Suez Canal. It was not a majority interest, but for practical purchases, it was a controlling interest.

He nationalized the Suez Canal

It affects Singapore in a positive manner. European countries are now able to come ot Singapre at a faster rate as compared to the Cape of Good Hope. This help promotes trade to Singapore as the Asian countries will come to Singapore as a trading post. European countries will also come to Singapre rather than go to this other Asian countries which are too far. Mails from Europe also travel faster too!

Hitler, specifically the Deutches Afrika Corps (DAK) under General Erwin Rommel wanted to control the Suez Canal to block British shipping into the Mediterranean Sea.

Ismail Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, commissioned Verdi to write the now famous opera Aida, for performance in January 1871, paying him 150,000 francs, but the premiere was delayed because of the Franco-Prussian War. Contrary to popular belief, the opera was not written to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869.

the number of ships that use the cape sea route has dereased because of the suez canal.

The Suez Canal opened in November 1869. The date is unknown.

By the construction of the Suez Canal, the time limit between the two continents have been reduced by 8 hours, besides providing trade & commerce through navigation.

Increase trade between the middle east, Europe, and Asia.

Nasser (the Egyptian leader) blocked it to reduce oil exports to Western Europe. This was after Britain and France were forced by the U.S. to withdraw their troops from Egypt after the Suez War.

The Suez Canal does not connect any countries. It connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.

The Suez Canal.

4.8% of total world oil pass through Suez canal

The Panama Canal is owned today by China. We know the Panama Canal's ownership caused many problems in the past and a treaty was signed in 1977 between the U.S. and Panama. At the end of 1999 however, it was handed over to China.

Britain conquered Egypt and turned it into a british protectorate

Britain and France. The two super powers at the time.

The Suez Canal was built to create a short cut for shipping sailing between the Indian ocean to the North Atlantic Ocean,avoiding the longer voyage around the Cape of Good Hope, or the more hazardous Cape Horn passage.

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While aircraft carriers routinely transited the Panama Canal in years past, carriers built after WW II cannot fit through the Panama Canal as it exists today. The new locks being built now are wide enough to fit the lower part of today's supercarriers. However, their much wider superstructure width will prevent them from using the Canal. At their widest, a supercarrier is about 257 feet wide and would hit other structures within the new locks. Below is a link that describes a WW II aircraft carrier's service life and references a Panama Canal transit.

http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/ships/carriers/histories/cv15-randolph/cv15-randolph.html

The Suez Crisis was a Superpower stand-off that took place from late 1956 to early '57. The Egyptian military ruler, Colonel Abdel Nasser, did not think it fair that Western nation should have free access to use the Suez Canal in order to import oil from the Middle East, so he imposed a system of tariffs upon foreign shipping using the canal. In response to this, Israel launched an invasion of the Egyptian Sinai on 29th October 1956, resulting in both Britain and France issuing a ceasefire ultimatm, which was ignored. The British Prime Minister, Anthony Eden, then pledged to come to Israel's assistance and coerced the French Government to do the same via diplomatic pressure by the British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd. Thus on 5th November a huge joint Anglo-French invasion of the Canal Zone was undertaken, supported by Israel- it achieved it's objectives in defeating Egypt and was intended to go on to lead to an Egyptian counter-revolution that would topple Nasser's Government, but this failed to materialise. The Soviet Union then threatened to intervene to support Egypt unless the occupying forces withdrew, backed up by Arab countries who began an oil embargo of Britain and France, leading to fuel shortages in these nations and petrol rationing. Although France was not then a part of NATO, Britain WAS, and a Soviet attack upon the UK would have inevitably obliged the other nations to support the British under the terms of the North Atlantic Treaty- also, any Russian attacks upon Britain would have included strikes upon US air bases stationed in the country, which Washington would have seen as a direct attack upon the US itself. A serious threat of Superpower conflict, that could have escalated into a nuclear war, hung over the world between the end of '56 and the beginning of '57- it was diffused, however, by US pressure upon the British Government, with President Eisenhower threatening to damage British financial strength by selling off it's pound sterling bonds. This resulted in the humiliating withdrawal of Anglo-French forces, and the resignation of Anthony Eden in March 1957, who was replaced by his Chancellor, Harold MacMillan. Israel had achieved some of it's objectives, such as achieving freedom of navigation through the Straits of Tiran, which Egypt had blocked to Israeli shipping for the previous seven years, but Nasser's Government remained in power and the incident may have emboldened the USSR to crush the Hungarian Uprising, which began at about the same time as the Suez Crisis began.

The Suez Crisis is seen as one of the most dangerous periods of the Cold War, at which global nuclear war seemed for a while to be imminent and even probable.

He did it because he needed the Revenue, but more importantly because he wanted to assert Egyptian sovereignty over all areas of Egypt and reject Western Influences.

Suez Canal has reduced India's distance from Europe.

The Suez Canal excavation began in April 25, 1859 and was open to navigation in November 17, 1869.