{"id":2135,"date":"2015-08-09T09:38:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T07:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meerverstehen.net\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2021-05-18T18:59:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T16:59:24","slug":"the-new-suez-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/der-neue-suezkanal\/","title":{"rendered":"The \"new Suez Canal\""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Reports about the opening of the \"new Suez Canal\" (http:\/\/www.arcor.de\/content\/aktuell\/news_politik_ausland\/3897896,1,Neuer-Suezkanal-wurde-er\u00f6ffnet,content.html) are making the rounds in the media. This is in fact an extension of the existing canal. The very short construction period of just one year is remarkable.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Egypt financed the construction with private funds from its citizens and is now hoping for more ship passages and an economic upturn in the canal region. Internationally, it has touted the project as its gift to the world.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The widening will enable two-way traffic on larger sections, but not along the entire route. For shipping, the time in which oncoming traffic has to wait in the roadstead or in the Bitter Lakes will be reduced. In any case, this means more flexibility, especially for the tightly scheduled liner services, which previously had to reach the canal on time to avoid losing an entire day.<\/p>\n<p>Even if economic experts are sceptical as to whether Egypt's underlying expectations will be fulfilled, the national enthusiasm for the opening of the canal was in any case an emotional success for the Egyptian government.<\/p>\n<p>From a European perspective, there are many reasons to keep a close eye on the further development of this project.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Durch die Medien gehen Berichte \u00fcber die Er\u00f6ffnung des \"neuen Suezkanals\" (http:\/\/www.arcor.de\/content\/aktuell\/news_politik_ausland\/3897896,1,Neuer-Suezkanal-wurde-er\u00f6ffnet,content.html). Tats\u00e4chlich handelt es sich dabei um einen Ausbau des bestehenden Kanals. Beachtlich ist die sehr kurze Bauzeit von nur einem Jahr. \u00c4gypten hat den Bau mit privaten Mitteln seiner B\u00fcrger finanziert und hofft jetzt auf mehr Schiffspassagen und einen wirtschaftlichen Aufschwung in der [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,33,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sicherheitspolitik-blog","category-blog","category-schifffahrt-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}