Ferdinand De Lesseps built it to provide shorter shipping routes.
The Suez Canal was built by the French owned Suez Canal Co.
A French company with the use of eleven thousand forced labor workers built the Suez Canal.
It was the Suez Canal, constructed by the Suez Canal Company between 1859 and 1869.
Suez Canal Company was created in 1858.
In Egypt
Suez canal was built as if anyone would travel from europe to india they had go all the way to cape of hope and then go to india.Because of this canal we can directly go to india through medditaranian sea.
The country is Egypt
Egypt
The Suez Canal is and was used to for transportation of goods/supplies and people. When the Suez Canal was built, it was meant for transporting goods from South Asia to Europe. The Suez Canal was originally built by the French, but Great Britain bought it from them when it was completed and the canal became an important foothold in WWI and WWII.
The Suez Canal
The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. The canal, since at least 1956 belongs to Egypt. When it was first built in approximately 1869, it was a French- British company that built and for all practical purposes was "controlled" by these European powers. The canal has no locks and other constructions such as the Panama Canal. The Suez Canal was built as a straight link between the two seas. 11,000 "forced labor" Egyptians built the Canal.