Tag: Egyptian economy

• Thursday, July 30th 2015 - 08:07 UTC

  First cargo ships sail along Egypt's new expanded Suez Canal; official opening in August

  

  The first cargo ships passed through Egypt's New Suez Canal last weekend in a test-run before it opens next month, state media reported, eleven months after the army began constructing the $8 billion canal alongside the existing 145-year-old Suez Canal.