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Suez Canal Expansion to Increase Two-Way Section by 10km

United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) approaches the Friendship Bridge during a Suez Canal transit in this picture taken April 2, 2021 and released by US Navy on April 3, 2021. (Reuters)
United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) approaches the Friendship Bridge during a Suez Canal transit in this picture taken April 2, 2021 and released by US Navy on April 3, 2021. (Reuters)
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Suez Canal Expansion to Increase Two-Way Section by 10km

United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) approaches the Friendship Bridge during a Suez Canal transit in this picture taken April 2, 2021 and released by US Navy on April 3, 2021. (Reuters)
United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) approaches the Friendship Bridge during a Suez Canal transit in this picture taken April 2, 2021 and released by US Navy on April 3, 2021. (Reuters)

Works are under way to expand the two-way section of the Suez canal to 82 km (51 miles) from 72 km, the chairman of the authority managing the Egyptian waterway said on Tuesday.

Suez Canal Authority Chairman Osama Rabie told a news conference that it would be too expensive to expand the entire waterway that links the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, Reuters reported.

Global shipping traffic was badly disrupted last year when when one of the world's largest container ships got stuck in the southern section of the 190 km canal for about a week.

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Shipping Company Maersk Temporarily Pauses Haifa Port Calls

Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache attack helicopters fly over Israel's northern city of Haifa on June 19, 2025. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache attack helicopters fly over Israel's northern city of Haifa on June 19, 2025. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
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Shipping Company Maersk Temporarily Pauses Haifa Port Calls

Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache attack helicopters fly over Israel's northern city of Haifa on June 19, 2025. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache attack helicopters fly over Israel's northern city of Haifa on June 19, 2025. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Container shipping company Maersk said on Friday it had temporarily paused vessel calls at Israel's Haifa port amid regional tensions.

The Danish company said it did not experience any further disruptions to its scheduled operations in the region.

Israel has been hitting Iran from the air since last Friday in what it describes as an effort to prevent Tehran from developing nuclear weapons.

Iran has denied plans to develop such weapons and has retaliated by launching counterstrikes on Israel.

On Thursday, Iran's Revolutionary Guards said it had launched combined missile and drone attacks at military and industrial sites linked to Israel's defense industry in Haifa and Tel Aviv.